Table 1
Percentage reporting strong or somewhat strong sense of community belonging, by selected characteristics, household population aged 12 or older, Canada, 2005

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  % 95% confidence interval
Total 64.4 64.0 to 64.8
Sex
Men 64 63.4 to 64.6
Women† 64.7 64.2 to 65.3
Age group
12 to 17 77.4* 76.3 to 78.4
18 to 29 54.5* 53.5 to 55.5
30 to 44† 62.1 61.2 to 62.9
45 to 64 65.4* 64.7 to 66.2
65 or older 71.6* 70.8 to 72.5
Marital status‡
Married or common-law† 64.9 64.2 to 65.5
Widowed 63.2 59.3 to 67.1
Divorced or separated 57.3* 55.7 to 59.0
Never married 54.4* 53.1 to 55.7
Children younger than 12 in household
Yes 66.8* 66.0 to 67.6
No† 63.6 63.1 to 64.1
Education‡
Less than secondary graduation 61.1 59.6 to 62.6
Secondary graduation 64.6* 63.3 to 65.9
Some postsecondary 63.2 61.3 to 65.1
Postsecondary graduation† 62.2 61.6 to 62.8
Household income quintile
1 Lowest 60.8* 59.8 to 61.8
2 64.4 63.4 to 65.4
3† 64.7 63.6 to 65.7
4 65.2 64.3 to 66.2
5 Highest 65 64.1 to 66.0
Home ownership
Yes 67.1* 66.6 to 67.6
No† 55.1 54.3 to 56.0
Language spoken most often at home
English† 68.1 67.6 to 68.5
French 55.0* 54.0 to 55.9
Other 60.1* 58.3 to 61.8
Cultural or racial group
White† 64.8 64.4 to 65.3
South Asian 74.2* 71.3 to 77.1
Filipino 68.9 63.9 to 73.9
Aboriginal (off-reserve) 63.7 61.5 to 65.9
Black 63.7 59.9 to 67.5
Arab 62.3 56.0 to 68.6
Japanese 58.7 48.4 to 69.0
West Asian 57.1 48.3 to 65.9
Latin American 54.3* 48.4 to 60.1
Southeast Asian 51.9* 45.8 to 57.9
Chinese 51.8* 48.6 to 55.0
Korean 50.0* 39.8 to 60.3
Other or multiple racial or cultural origin 62.2 58.8 to 65.5
† reference category
* significantly different from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05)
‡ based on people aged 25 to 64
Source: 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, "Community belonging and self-perceived health", Health Reports, Vol. 19 No. 2, catalogue number 82-003-XWE.