Table 2.
Mean daily fruit and vegetable servings regressed on individual variables, neighborhood store availability, and perceived neighborhood fruit and vegetable supply*
| Model 1: Fully unconditional |
Model 2: Individual co-variates |
Model 3: Food store availability |
Model 4: Perceived fruit and vegetable supply |
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| Estimate | SE | p-value | Estimate | SE | p-value | Estimate | SE | p-value | Estimate | SE | p-value | |
| Intercept | 3.362 | 0.144 | <0.001 | 3.333 | 0.103 | <0.001 | 3.269 | 0.178 | <0.001 | 3.333 | 0.103 | <0.001 |
| Age, years | <0.001 | 0.007 | 0.960 | 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.857 | <0.001 | 0.007 | 0.972 | |||
| Household size, # members | 0.021 | 0.087 | 0.812 | 0.020 | 0.087 | 0.821 | 0.019 | 0.087 | 0.827 | |||
| Years of residence in neighborhood | −0.012 | 0.008 | 0.137 | −0.014 | 0.008 | 0.097 | −0.012 | 0.008 | 0.134 | |||
| Female (Ref: Male) | −0.237 | 0.251 | 0.345 | −0.225 | 0.254 | 0.375 | −0.230 | 0.254 | 0.365 | |||
| Currently married (Ref: Not married) | 0.681 | 0.296 | 0.021 | 0.693 | 0.294 | 0.019 | 0.674 | 0.288 | 0.020 | |||
| Race/ethnicity (Ref: African-American) | ||||||||||||
| Latino | 1.707 | 0.360 | <0.001 | 1.730 | 0.381 | <0.001 | 1.678 | 0.357 | <0.001 | |||
| White | −0.361 | 0.217 | 0.096 | −0.300 | 0.206 | 0.145 | −0.371 | 0.218 | 0.089 | |||
| Education (Ref: At least some college) | ||||||||||||
| Less than high school | 0.102 | 0.316 | 0.748 | 0.159 | 0.313 | 0.611 | 0.075 | 0.310 | 0.810 | |||
| High school diploma or GED | −0.434 | 0.310 | 0.162 | −0.455 | 0.298 | 0.127 | −0.453 | 0.299 | 0.130 | |||
| Annual income (Ref: ≥$35,000) | ||||||||||||
| <$10,000 | 0.123 | 0.322 | 0.696 | 0.146 | 0.316 | 0.644 | 0.133 | 0.320 | 0.677 | |||
| $10,000–$19,999 | 0.385 | 0.456 | 0.399 | 0.378 | 0.446 | 0.397 | 0.383 | 0.464 | 0.409 | |||
| $20,000–$34,999 | −0.168 | 0.283 | 0.552 | −0.132 | 0.285 | 0.644 | −0.168 | 0.284 | 0.553 | |||
| Currently employed (Ref: Not employed) | 0.297 | 0.309 | 0.338 | 0.281 | 0.314 | 0.372 | 0.292 | 0.312 | 0.349 | |||
| Owns car (Ref: Does not own car) | −0.143 | 0.261 | 0.584 | −0.157 | 0.258 | 0.542 | −0.140 | 0.260 | 0.591 | |||
| Large grocery store | 0.691 | 0.210 | 0.002 | |||||||||
| Specialty store | −0.030 | 0.230 | 0.896 | |||||||||
| Convenience store | −0.110 | 0.238 | 0.643 | |||||||||
| Liquor stores, # | −0.041 | 0.046 | 0.376 | |||||||||
| Small grocery store | −0.289 | 0.193 | 0.136 | |||||||||
| Distance to nearest supermarket, miles | 0.056 | 0.120 | 0.638 | |||||||||
| Satisfaction neighborhood fruit and vegetable supply | 0.099 | 0.150 | 0.500 | |||||||||
| Neighborhood variance | 0.930 | <0.001 | 0.271 | 0.013 | 0.058 | 0.065 | 0.266 | 0.014 | ||||
| Individual variance | 7.210 | 6.791 | 6.875 | 6.789 | ||||||||
*
All individual-level independent variables, distance to the nearest supermarket, and number of liquor stores were grand-mean centered.