Table 1 Socioeconomic profile by region

Continuous variables

Mean

Mean

Mean

Mean

Mean

Mean

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

Age (years)

74.6^B

74.7^B

74.7^B

74.3^A

74.3^A

74.5

[74.4,74.8]

[74.6,74.9]

[74.5,74.8]

[74.1,74.4]

[74.1,74.4]

[74.5,74.6]

Income (CAD)

49998^B

50056^B

54275^B

38159^A

40087^A

47,822

[45928,54067]

[47103,53010]

[50730,57819]

[35610,40707]

[37664,42511]

[46057,49587]

Categorical variables

%

%

%

%

%

%

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

[95% CI]

Women

53.3^B

54.5^A

54.9^A

55.9^A

55.1^A

51.9

[53.3,53.3]

[54.5,54.5]

[54.9,54.9]

[55.9,55.9]

[55.1,55.1]

[51.9,51.9]

 Less than high school

27.7

37.4^A

37.9^A

54.6

47.6

41.3

[24.9,30.6]

[35.0,39.9]

[35.4,40.5]

[51.5,57.7]

[45.0,50.2]

[39.9,42.7]

 High school

18.4^B

15.2^B

18.0^B

10.9^A

11.7^a

15.4

[16.0,20.9]

[13.5,16.9]

[16.2,19.9]

[9.1,12.7]

[10.3,13.1]

[14.5,16.4]

 College or higher

53.8

47.3^B

44.0^AB

34.5

40.7^a

43.3

[50.4,57.3]

[44.7,50.0]

[41.4,46.7]

[31.9,37.1]

[38.3,43.0]

[41.9,44.6]

Driver’s license

77.7^B

82.0

73.3^AB

71.3^A

76.2^B

74.9

[75.3,80.2]

[80.3,83.7]

[71.0,75.5]

[69.0,73.6]

[74.4,78.0]

[73.8,76.1]

 Car driver / passenger

83.7^B

88.8^B

84.2^A

80.3

93.9^a

84.8

[80.7,86.8]

[87.1,90.5]

[81.7,86.7]

[77.1,83.5]

[92.6,95.1]

[83.5,86]

 Walking or cycling

11.0^B

7.0^A

10.8^AB

13.8^AB

3.8

10.4

[8.4,13.6]

[5.7,8.3]

[8.9,12.7]

[11.2,16.5]

[2.9,4.8]

[9.3,11.4]

 Transit, accessible transit, taxi & wheelchair

5.2^A

4.2^A

5.0^A

5.8^A

2.3

4.9

[3.6,6.9]

[3.2,5.2]

[3.8,6.2]

[4.3,7.3]

[1.5,3.1]

[4.3,5.5]

Retired

91.8^AB

90.0^B

89.6^B

94.2^A

94.2^A

91.5

[90.0,93.5]

[88.4,91.6]

[88.0,91.1]

[92.8,95.5]

[93.2,95.3]

[42.1,43.6]

 Rural area

10.3^AB

5.5^A

16.8^B

20.5^B

29.5

16.1

[4.2,16.3]

[3.4,7.6]

[13.5,20.1]

[16.0,25.0]

[25.7,33.4]

[14.1,18.1]

 Small

6.8^AB

5.0^AB

2.2^A

2.6^AB

8.2^b

3.8

[2.6,11.0]

[2.7,7.3]

[0.6,3.8]

[0.5,4.6]

[5.2,11.1]

[2.7,4.9]

 Medium

13.6^AB

11.8^AB

9.1^A

11.0^AB

19.3^b

11.4

[8.6,18.7]

[7.7,15.9]

[5.8,12.3]

[6.9,15.1]

[16.0,22.7]

[9.5,13.2]

 Large

21.9^AB

31.6^B

25.0^B

11.2^A

42.9

23.4

[15.3,28.5]

[26.6,36.6]

[19.9,30.0]

[7.1,15.3]

[38.3,47.6]

[20.9,25.9]

 Metropolitan

47.4^A

46.2^A

47.0^A

54.7^A

‡

45.3

[4.2,39.2]

[2.8,40.7]

[2.9,41.4]

[3.2,48.5]

[‡,‡]

[42.4,48.2]

Living alone

33.9^B

35.3^AB

36.4^AB

39.1^A

37.5^AB

36.6

[31.1,36.7]

[33.0,37.6]

[34.4,38.4]

[36.9,41.3]

[36.0,39.1]

[35.6,37.7]

Immigrant

41.5^A

21.5

41.1^A

12.4

5.9

28.4

[37.9,45.0]

[19.3,23.7]

[37.6,44.5]

[9.7,15.0]

[5.0,6.9]

[26.8,29.9]

At least one chronic disease

90.8^A

92.0^A

91.3^A

90.8^A

92.9^A

91.3

[73.1,78.2]

[77.6,81.0]

[75.9,80.1]

[74.2,78.1]

[80.4,83.8]

[90.6,92.0]