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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2008 Jan 28;18(3):181–190. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.11.001

Table 2.

Census Tract-Level Variables, U.S. Census 2000 (n=184)

Mean Value St. Deviation Median * Pearson Correlation with fruit and vegetable intake
Proportion NH Black .20 .22 0.11 −0.06
Proportion White .54 .24 0.55 0.01
Proportion NH White .42 .28 0.38 −0.05
Proportion Hispanic .36 .25 0.29 0.07*
Proportion foreign-born .18 .14 0.13 0.28***
Proportion of the population under the poverty line
Proportion of Whites under Poverty .23 .14 0.19 −0.01
Proportion of Blacks under poverty .30 .16 0.35 −0.04
Proportion of Hispanics under poverty .36 .16 0.35 −0.11**
Median Household Annual Income 30,104 11,626 31,516 0.01
Median Value Owner-occupied homes 131,214 99,350 105,200 0.01
*

Correlations are crude i.e. unadjusted for clustering or tract level and/or individual level variance.

*

p<.10

**

p<.005

***

p<.0001

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