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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2012 Feb;42(2):129–135. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.10.012

Table 2.

Food outlet within 0.5 mile from respondents’ home/school and census tract characteristics

Food Outlet Type Food Outlet Count Child Adolescent
School Home School & Home School Home School & Home
Fast-food restaurant 0 50.94% 53.89% 35.19% 45.03% 56.11% 30.12%
1 14.48% 13.46% 13.24% 14.44% 11.96% 13.08%
2 10.04% 9.80% 11.10% 12.22% 9.49% 11.54%
≥ 3 24.54% 22.85% 40.47% 28.30% 22.44% 45.26%

Convenience store 0 68.32% 70.11% 53.72% 64.17% 69.44% 49.10%
1 22.68% 21.04% 27.45% 25.02% 21.08% 28.04%
2 6.87% 6.64% 12.00% 8.38% 7.10% 14.34%
≥ 3 2.13% 2.21% 6.83% 2.43% 2.37% 8.52%

Small food store 0 58.87% 61.72% 44.58% 55.92% 62.15% 40.51%
1 21.16% 18.62% 22.78% 21.70% 17.84% 23.13%
2 8.39% 7.20% 11.44% 9.00% 6.99% 11.65%
≥ 3 11.57% 12.46% 21.20% 13.39% 13.03% 24.71%

Grocery store 0 81.64% 83.86% 72.74% 82.28% 83.37% 71.49%
1 13.86% 11.97% 18.44% 12.95% 12.41% 19.08%
2 2.83% 2.81% 5.39% 3.38% 2.54% 5.56%
≥ 3 1.67% 1.36% 3.43% 1.39% 1.68% 3.88%

Large supermarket 0 66.51% 69.62% 51.28% 63.67% 70.68% 47.59%
1 24.82% 23.00% 30.12% 26.05% 21.58% 31.88%
2 6.88% 5.85% 13.07% 8.44% 5.92% 13.62%
≥ 3 1.79% 1.53% 5.53% 1.83% 1.81% 6.91%

Census tract Population per square mile 5271 (5466) 5565 (6259) 4863 (5208) 5367 (5634) 5661 (6842) 4746 (5084)
Median household income US$ 73293 (36063) 72513 (35166) 72860 (33025) 68662 (33306) 71031 (35872) 70114 (31307)
Proportion of non-Hispanic White 0.640 (0.194) 0.627 (0.200) 0.631 (0.187) 0.626 (0.195) 0.620 (0.203) 0.621 (0.184)

Note: Sample size is 8,226 for children 5–11 years old and 5,236 for adolescents 12–17 years old. Mean and standard deviation (in parenthesis) are reported. Statistics are adjusted using CHIS sampling weights. Reported percentages in “Home” and “School” columns denote the proportions of children and adolescents that have less than 1, 1–2, 2–3, or more than 3 food outlets of a specific type within 0.5 mile from their home and school, respectively. Reported percentages in “School & Home” columns denote the proportions of children and adolescents that have 0, 1, 2, and 3 or more food outlets of a specific type within 0.5 mile either from their home or from school.