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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2011 May 17;17(5):1150–1161. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.05.001

Table 3.

Relationships between characteristics of the activity space (one standard deviation ellipse, daily path area) and individual demographics (n=120)

Geographic size Fast food outlet density Supermarket availabilitya Park land use

One standard deviation ellipse Daily path area One standard deviation ellipse Daily path area One standard deviation ellipse Daily path area One standard deviation ellipse Daily path area

Coef. S.E. Coef. S.E. Coef. S.E. Coef. S.E. O.R. C.I. O.R. C.I. Coef. S.E. Coef. S.E.

Intercept 1.67 2.90 0.54 0.38 1.39 1.26 2.91
Age <−0.01 0.01 −0.01 0.01 <−0.01 0.01 <−0.01 0.01 0.99 (0.96, 1.03) 0.97 (0.93, 1.01) −0.01 <0.01 −0.01 0.01
Female −0.12 0.28 −0.19 0.20 0.26 0.13 0.26 0.13 0.55 (0.20, 1.57) 1.35 (0.39, 4.64) −0.03 0.13 −0.52 0.32
Race/ethnicity (Ref.: African American)
 Latino −0.68 0.41 −0.23 0.29 0.05 0.20 0.06 0.15 0.26 (0.05, 1.34) 4.37 (0.73, 26.30) 0.06 0.19 0.69 0.47
 White/Other −0.31 0.39 −0.17 0.27 <−0.01 0.19 0.03 0.15 0.76 (0.18, 3.13) 1.23 (0.27, 5.56) −0.06 0.18 0.64 0.44
Education (Ref.: <High school degree)
 High school degree 0.11 0.35 0.24 0.25 −0.05 0.17 −0.05 0.17 0.72 (0.19, 2.74) 1.26 (0.28, 5.61) −0.09 0.16 −0.24 0.40
 >High school degree 0.08 0.29 0.14 0.20 −0.01 0.14 <0.01 0.14 0.72 (0.23, 2.21) 1.16 (0.35, 3.83) −0.13 0.13 0.31 0.33
Currently employed 0.67 0.27* 0.36 0.19 0.09 0.13 0.09 0.13 3.02 (1.12, 8.18) * 3.90 (0.93, 16.42) 0.09 0.13 −0.31 0.31
Annual household incomeb (Ref.: <$10,000)
 $10,000–$25,000 −0.09 0.30 −0.11 0.21 0.04 0.15 0.07 0.14 0.70 (0.22, 2.22) 0.50 (0.13, 1.96) 0.05 0.14 0.54 0.34
 >$25,000 0.05 0.34 −0.05 0.24 −0.06 0.17 −0.06 0.17 0.99 (0.27, 3.62) 0.58 (0.12, 2.87) −0.05 0.16 0.47 0.39
Owns automobile 1.37 0.27 *** 0.99 0.19*** 0.13 0.13 0.11 0.13 4.99 (1.62, 15.39) ** 7.50 (2.27, 24.84) ** 0.24 0.12 −0.79 0.30*
Area of city (Ref: Southwest Detroit)
 Eastside Detroit −0.63 0.39 −0.19 0.27 −0.11 0.19 0.09 0.14 1.82 (0.45, 7.37) 2.28 (0.47, 11.14) −0.01 0.18 1.31 0.44*
 Northwest Detroit −0.38 0.39 −0.09 0.26 0.13 0.18 0.28 0.14 1.64 (0.44, 6.20) 6.73 (1.18, 38.45) * 0.37 0.17* 1.94 0.42**
  Adjusted R2 0.25 0.24 −0.03 0.06 -- -- 0.04 0.18

Coef. = coefficient S.E. = standard error O.R. = odds ratio C.I. = confidence interval Ref. = reference category

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001

a

Dichotomous measure: Presence or absence of a supermarket in the activity space

b

A dummy variable was included representing those with missing income data.