Table A3
Individual and contextual characteristics associated with certain characteristics of personal networks, census metropolitan areas of Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, 2013 Table A3
Individual and contextual characteristics associated with certain characteristics of personal networks, census metropolitan areas of Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, 2013

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Table A3
Individual and contextual characteristics associated with certain characteristics of personal networks, census metropolitan areas of Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Individual and contextual characteristics associated with certain characteristics of personal networks. The information is grouped by Individual and place of residence characteristics (appearing as row headers), Characteristics of personal networks, Analysis method -
logistic regressions, Analysis method -
ordered logistic regressions, Persons with a personal network of more than 15 people, Persons with a network of acquaintances of more than 10 people, Meetings with family in the last month, Meetings with friends in the last month, New people met in the last month and Ethnic diversity among friends contacted in the last month, calculated using odds ratios units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Individual and place of residence characteristics	Characteristics of personal networks
	Analysis method - logistic regressions		Analysis method - ordered logistic regressions
	Persons with a personal network of more than 15 people	Persons with a network of acquaintances of more than 10 people	Meetings with family in the last month	Meetings with friends in the last month	New people met in the last month	Ethnic diversity among friends contacted in the last month
	odds ratios^{Table A3 Note 1}
Sex
Male (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Female	0.83	0.71^Note **	1.25^Note *	0.88	0.66^Note **	0.93
Age
Age	0.94^Note **	0.93^Note **	1.01	0.91^Note **	0.94^Note **	0.94^Note **
Age squared	1.59^Note *	1.81^Note **	0.98	2.11^Note **	1.47^Note *	1.43
Living alone
No (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	1.63^Note **	1.22	0.95	0.71^Note **	0.91	0.92
Language spoken most often at home
Other (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
English or French	1.31	1.36^Note *	1.27^Note *	1.08	1.08	1.51^Note **
Education
High school diploma or less (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Post-secondary diploma	1.00	0.93	1.10	0.98	1.03	1.21
University degree	1.31	1.01	1.15	0.68^Note **	1.36^Note *	1.16
Has a job or is self-employed
No (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	1.21	1.52^Note **	0.91	0.93	1.20	1.04
Income
Relative median income of households in neighbourhood of residence	1.96^Note **	1.39	1.36	1.01	1.20	0.86
Has done volunteer work
No (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	2.13^Note **	2.00^Note **	1.21	1.37^Note **	2.02^Note **	1.59^Note **
Religious practice
No (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	1.23	1.06	1.36^Note **	1.05	1.05	1.09
Victim of discrimination or unfair treatment
No (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	1.04	1.19	0.85	1.07	1.18	1.34^Note *
Census metropolitan area
Montréal	0.90	0.66^Note **	1.44^Note **	1.00	0.89	0.63^Note **
Toronto (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00^Note **
Vancouver	1.20	1.28	1.00	1.25	0.96	0.98
Type of municipality
Central (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Peripheral 1st ring	0.73^Note *	0.71^Note *	1.33^Note *	1.01	0.94	0.75^Note *
Peripheral 2nd ring	0.50^Note **	0.44^Note **	1.26	0.73^Note *	0.88	0.74^Note *
Demographic weight of immigrant population in neighbourhood
Less than 50% (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
50% to less than 70%	1.28	1.03	1.07	0.95	1.06	0.86
70% or greater	0.93	0.68^Note *	1.03	0.74^Note *	0.87	0.85
Period of immigration and generation
Recent immigrant	0.67^Note *	0.70^Note *	0.38^Note **	0.91	1.49^Note *	0.69^Note **
Established immigrant (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Second generation	1.38^Note *	1.13	1.52^Note **	1.11	1.07	0.91
Region of birth or origin
North America	1.85^Note *	1.83^Note *	0.74	1.65^Note *	1.15	1.23
The Caribbean	0.54^Note *	0.73	1.38	0.87	1.12	2.01^Note **
Central and South America	1.11	1.17	0.66	1.06	1.03	1.76^Note **
Europe (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Africa	0.60	0.73	0.86	1.25	0.76	2.11^Note *
Middle East and West Asia	1.12	0.93	1.36	0.88	0.98	2.16^Note **
East Asia	0.66	0.76	0.48^Note **	0.81	0.65^Note *	1.46^Note *
South Asia	0.80	0.72	0.85	0.85	0.92	1.60^Note **
Southeast Asia and Oceania	0.77	1.09	0.73	1.10	1.28	2.01^Note **
Note * significantly different from reference category (ref.) at p < 0.05 Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from reference category (ref.) at p < 0.01 Return to note referrer Note 1. An odds ratio of 1 means that the likelihood of observing the phenomenon is 100%. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey on Social Identity, 2013

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