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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jul 4;75(8):1505–1513. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.010

Table 2.

Paid Employment for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury by Area-Level Characteristics (2000 US Census) [% or Mean (SD)]

	Total N = 1,013	Employed N = 205	Not employed N = 808
Area-level characteristics
Socioeconomic Index
Mean (SD)	3.0 (5.3)	4.4 (5.9)	2.6 (2.8)^***
Range	[−6.6, 16.5]	[−4.8, 16.5]	[−6.6, 16.5]
Percent Unemployed (%)
Less than 5%	19.4	28.3	17.1
5 – 10 %	68.1	62.9	69.4
Greater than 10%	12.5	8.8	13.5^**
Urbanicity (%)
Urban	68.7	69.3	68.6
Suburban	18.6	23.9	17.2
Rural	12.7	6.8	14.2^*

^*

p < 0.05;

^**

p < 0.01;

^***

p < 0.001

Note: Bivariate analyses based on χ² tests of significance or t-tests.