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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2008 Jun 26;15(1):323–332. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.06.001

Table 6.

Hierarchical Ordinal Regression Model of Active Organizational Participation (N=217 tracts, N=2881 obs)

Model A Model B Model C Model D

Variables Empty Model Model with Off- Premise Outlet Density Model with Individual and Other Neighborhood Predictors Model with Perception of Neighborhood Safety
Estimate (Standard Error)

Individual-Level Variables
Sexa −0.2407 (0.0315) −0.2373 (0.0312)
Age (years) 0.01543 (0.0013) 0.01527 (0.0013)
Race (White = referent)
 African American 0.3477 (0.0557) 0.3494 (0.0562)
 Other 0.01815 (0.0449) 0.02137 (0.0452)
Hispanic ethnicity −0.1787 (0.0453) −0.03119 (0.0492)
Educationa 0.1595 (0.0159) 0.1665 (0.0158)
Incomea 0.1387 (0.0249) 0.1587 (0.0249)
Number of years lived in neighborhood 0.00274 (0.0015) * 0.00281 (0.0015)*
Perception of neighborhood safety 0.00636 (0.0182)
Tract-Level Variables
Off-premise outlet density per square mile 0.03195 (0.00513) 0.00469 (0.00146) 0.00359 (0.00147)
Study locationa 0.3214 (0.0347) 0.3141 (0.0353)
Concentrated disadvantage −0.00072 (0.0045) −0.00047 (0.0046)
Random Effects
Variance between neighborhoods/tracts 0.5267 0.4103 0.1680 0.1573
Variance between individuals b 3.29 3.29 3.29 3.29
Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) 13.8% 11.09% 5.08% 4.56%
Median Odds Ratio (MOR)b 1.99 1.84 1.48 1.46
−2 Res Log Likelihood 7005.63 6980.65 6405.05 6320.13

Note. P-value (2-sided): < 0.0001;

< 0.01;

§

< 0.05;

*

< 0.10. Due to space constraints, the 3 intercepts were not presented here for each model

a

Comparisons made for: males vs. females; lowest to highest education and income levels; and Louisiana vs. California.

b

ICC=Intraclass correlation coefficient (with individual-level variance calculated using the formula of Snijders based on an underlying continuous variable with Vindividual = Π2/3 (Snijders and Bosker, 1999). Because of limitations of the ICC for non-linear outcomes, the Median Odds Ratio (MOR) (Merlo et al., 2004) was also calculated.