Table A1
List and description of selected indicators and corresponding type of regression
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| Indicator | Type of variable | Type of regression | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal networks | |||
| People with a personal network of more than 15 people | Binary | Logistic | The total size of the local personal network is measured as all the social relationships with people living in the same city or local community as the respondent. This may include all types of ties, such as family members living in another household to whom the respondent feels close, close friends, and acquaintances (or other friends). In 2013 the median size of personal networks was 16 people. This variable was grouped into two categories. |
| People with a network of more than 10 acquaintances | Binary | Logistic | The size of the network of acquaintances corresponds solely to the number of acquaintances or other friends living in the same city or local community as the respondent. In 2013 the median number of acquaintances was 10. As with the total size of personal networks, the study population was grouped into two equivalent categories. |
| New people met in the last month | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | In the GSS on Social Identity, respondents were asked to indicate the number of new people they had met outside school or work in the month preceding the survey with whom they intended to remain in contact. The possible answers are none, 1 or 2, 3 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 20, and 20 or more. |
| Meetings with family in the last month | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | The frequency of meetings with family members refers to the number of in-person contacts with family members living in another household that occurred in the last month (every day, a few times a week, once a week, two or three times a month, once a month, or not in the past month). |
| Meetings with friends in the last month | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | The frequency of meetings with friends, including close friends and acquaintances. |
| Ethnic diversity of friends with whom respondents have had contact in the last month | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | In the GSS, respondents are asked to indicate whether “all,” “most,” “about half,” “a few” or “none” of the friends with whom they have had contact in the last month, whether in person, on the telephone, by text message or by email, belonged to an ethnic group visibly different from their own. |
| Relationships with neighbours | |||
| Knowing neighbours | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | The number of residents known in the neighbourhood is measured by asking respondents whether they know most, many, a few or no residents in the neighbourhood. |
| People who did a favour for or received a favour from a neighbour in the last month | Binary | Logistic | Mutual assistance in the neighbourhood refers to respondents who reported having done a favour for or received a favour from a neighbour in the last month. |
| Number of neighbours whom respondents trust | Ordinal | Ordered logistic | Respondents were required to indicate the number of people in the neighbourhood whom they trusted: (1) most of the people, (2) many of the people, (3) a few of the people, or (4) nobody in the neighbourhood. |
| Social participation and participation in group activities | |||
| Volunteering | Binary | Logistic | Like for the other two activities, the reference period for volunteering is the 12 months preceding the survey. |
| Members of or participants in a school group or a neighbourhood or community association | Binary | Logistic | This may be, for example, a parent–teacher or student association, Block Parents or Neighbourhood Watch. This type of participation, like that in immigrant or ethnic associations, may be in official or unofficial organizations. |
| Members of or participants in an immigrant or ethnic club or association | Binary | Logistic | It is not possible to determine whether respondents did or received a favour, but respondents are known to have participated in the year preceding the survey. |
| Sense of belonging | |||
| Local community City Province Canada Country of origin People of the same ethnicity or culture People with the same mother tongue |
Ordinal | Ordered logistic | For each aspect, respondents had to describe their sense of belonging by selecting one of the following responses: very strong, somewhat strong, somewhat weak, very weak or no opinion. The last category was not included in the analyses. |
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