Table 3.

Statistical description for the variables in the study

Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.
Childhood obesity (%)*	22·19	4·60
Log of supermarket distance†	.56	.77
Income‡	43 857·36	9720·05
Density§	41·64	36·30
% Ethnicity||	0·26	0·35
% Uneducated¶	0·23	0·08
% Unemployed**	0·33	0·07

Std. Dev. = standard deviation.

^*Proportion of overweight children incl. obese, 2013–16 (averaged) and collapsed to MSOA level.

^†Road distance in kilometres, the variable was log-transformed.

^‡Total annual household income in pound sterling £.

^§Number of persons per hectare.

^||Proportion of households from the ethnic minority groups.

^¶Proportion of households with no qualification.

^**Proportion of households with adults not in employment.