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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2007 Jun 16;14(2):198–208. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.06.001

Table 3.

Characteristics of Tracts with Low and High Levels of Collective Efficacy.

High Collective Efficacy Middle Collective Efficacy Low Collective Efficacy
Tract Disadvantage .45 −1.44 −3.27
Off-Sale Alcohol outlets (1/4 mile radius) 27.7 33.7 37.8
Off-Sale Alcohol outlets/roadway mile (1/4 mile radius) 0.62 0.78 0.90
Number of Parks (1/4 mile radius) 3.4 2.77 2.15
Fast Food Outlets (1/4 mile radius) 5.2 5.0 4.76
Number of Schools (1/4 mile radius) 2.0 2.12 2.16

Note: High collective efficacy is defined as a respondent living in a neighborhood with efficacy scores that are larger than one standard deviation above the mean while low efficacy neighborhoods are defined as one standard deviation below the mean. Middle collective efficacy is defined as a respondent living in a neighborhood within one standard deviation of the mean. As such, the characteristics of neighborhoods at the average are represented by the descriptive characteristics in Table 2.