Table 5
Characteristics of social networks and senior women's and men's feeling about life as a whole, by age group, Canada, 2008
Characteristics | Women | Men | Total | |||
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65 to 74 years | 75 years and over |
65 to 74 years | 75 years and over |
Women aged 65 years and over |
Men aged 65 years and over |
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average score | ||||||
Satisfaction with life as a whole1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 |
percentage | ||||||
Feeling about life as a whole | ||||||
Happy and interested in life | 79.3 | 79.1 | 77.2 | 77.7 | 79.2 | 77.4 |
Somewhat happy | 18.5 | 18.8 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 18.7 | 19.5 |
Somewhat unhappy | 2.2E | 2.1E | 2.4E | 4.2E | 1.2 | 3.1E |
Number of family members respondent feels close to |
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None | 1.6E‡ | 2.3E | 5.1E‡ | 3.4E | 1.9‡ | 4.4 |
One to four | 41.0* | 46.8 | 42.3 | 43.5 | 43.8 | 42.8 |
Five or more | 57.3* | 51.0 | 52.7 | 53.0 | 54.3 | 52.8 |
Number of friends respondent feels close to |
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None | 9.6* | 14.5 | 9.8* | 14.7 | 12.0 | 11.8 |
One or two | 21.3‡ | 23.9‡ | 17.3‡ | 13.3‡ | 22.6‡ | 15.6 |
Three or more | 69.1 | 61.6‡ | 72.9 | 72.0‡ | 65.5‡ | 72.5 |
Number of friends excluding closest | ||||||
None | 11.0‡ | 13.6‡ | 8.2* | 12.0‡ | 12.2 | 9.8 |
At least one | 89.0‡ | 86.4‡ | 91.8* | 88.0‡ | 87.8 | 90.2 |
Daily contacts | ||||||
Family | 9.7‡ | 11.4‡ | 6.1‡ | 8.0‡ | 10.5‡ | 6.9 |
Friends | 11.1 | 14.1 | 11.6 | 15.4 | 12.5 | 13.2 |
Respondent misses having people around |
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Yes | 25.0‡ | 34.0‡ | 28.2‡ | 33.4‡ | 29.3‡ | 30.3 |
More or less | 16.8* | 13.5 | 14.4 | 13.4 | 15.2 | 14.0 |
No | 58.2* | 52.5 | 57.4 | 53.3 | 55.5 | 55.7 |
E use with caution ‡ statistically significant difference between women and men at p<0.05 * statistically significant difference between age groups at p<0.05 1.To measure satisfaction with life we use a scale that goes from 1 to 10, where 1 means "very dissatisfied" and 10 means "very satisfied." Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2008 – Social Networks. |
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