Since the province is a narrower geopolitical category than the autonomous community used in this paper, we can exclude native mobility across autonomous communities (so-called regions in this paper) as a potential factor affecting regional employment convergence.
There is a possibility of underestimation of wheelchair user deaths because persons identified in new stories as using 'scooters' were excluded because mobility devices could sometimes not be distinguished from recreational scooters or mopeds.
However, excluding the seasonal mobility of female sex workers from this region [ 26], there is no known large-scale migration in the general population.
Some participants scored at the measurement floor; two items on assistive devices did not perform well in this sample and were excluded from the Mobility T-score.
As such, these two items on assistive devices were excluded from the Mobility scoring algorithm (resulting in an 11-item scale).
Additionally, normals recruited from spouses or volunteers are likely to exclude those with mobility limitations, thus overestimating findings.
* Adjusted for age, sex, study centre, body mass index, diurnal drowsiness, number of drugs (excluding inappropriate medication), cognitive functioning, depressive symptoms and impaired mobility.
Our second approach to deal with the mobility issue is, therefore, to exclude individuals with a prior mobility experience.
Indeed, this second perspective is limited to the journey-to-work mobility and thus excludes a large fraction of the individuals' mobility demand associated to amenities.
In this study, we used a modified 20-item version for institutionalized participants (excluding the eight IADL items and one item related to exterior mobility).
