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. 2012 Mar;102(3):490–493. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300170

TABLE 1—

Predictors of Smoking-Related Costs of Multiunit Housing Property With Most Recently Vacated Unit: California, 2008–2009

Descriptive Analysis
Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model
Characteristics Small (< 16 Units), No. (%) Large (≥ 16 Units), No. (%) Total, No. (%) Logistic Model, Coefficient (P) Negative Binomial, Coefficient (P)
Total 196 (65.0) 147 (35.0) 343 (100.0)
Smoking status*
 Never smoker (Ref) 62.7 55.0 60.0 1.0 1.0
 Former smoker 33.0 29.0 31.6 −0.138 (.717) 0.562 (.128)
 Current smoker 4.3 16.0 8.4 −0.353 (.522) 0.754 (.232)
Number of units at property*** 0.004 (.181) 0.004 (.001)
 Average (SD) 5.8 (3.5) 100.2 (153.5) 38.8 (93.8)
 Median 5.0 48.0 11.0
Has units with rent regulation
 Yes 36.2 34.6 35.6 0.212 (.479) −0.093 (.786)
 No (Ref) 63.8 65.4 64.4 1.0 1.0
Building with last vacated unit has central ventilation**
 Yes 20.5 37.8 26.6 0.291 (.584) 0.724 (.021)
 No (Ref) 79.5 62.2 73.4 1.0 1.0
Building with last vacated unit has individual furnaces***
 Yes 88.2 70.5 82.0 0.149 (.718) 0.338 (.574)
 No (Ref) 11.8 29.5 18.0 1.0 1.0
On-site owner or manager lives at the property*** 0.610 (.052) 0.239 (.454)
 Owner only 9.6 0.4 6.4
 On-site manager only 10.2 80.4 34.8
 Both owner and manager 5.1 2.3 4.1
 Neither (Ref) 75.1 17.0 54.7 1.0 1.0
Smoke-free policy***
 Complete smoke-free policy (Ref) 44.4 13.4 33.5 1.0 1.0
 Partial smoke-free policy 12.0 35.7 20.3 0.857 (.049) 1.015 (.108)
 No smoke-free policy 43.7 50.9 46.2 0.722 (.079) 0.252 (.639)
Smoking-related costs***
 Yes 16.6 46.7 27.1
 No 83.4 53.3 72.9

Note. Weighted analyses only. Significance tests for descriptive analyses compare small and large categories. Reported rates exclude responses coded as missing, don't know, or refused. Regression analyses examined a binary variable for on-site owner or manager. Zero-inflated negative binomial model statistics: ln(α) = 0.454; P < .001; A = 1.575.

*P < .05; **P < .01; ***P < .001.