Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics, Independent Samples Test, and Moran’s I Test for Spatial Autocorrelation for the TBR and Independent Variables

	Metropolitan Counties N=1,085		Nonmetropolitan Counties N=2,021		Independent Samples Test†	All Counties N=3,106
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	T-Test	Mean	Std. Dev.	Moran’s I
TBR	47.18	19.68	51.11	23.36	4.97***	49.74	22.21	0.53***
Clinic Rate	1.10	1.62	2.30	3.62	12.74***	1.88	3.13	0.25***
Percentage Black	10.57	13.64	7.89	14.92	−4.91***	8.83	14.54	0.79***
Percentage Native American	0.74	1.99	2.04	7.57	7.22***	1.58	6.25	0.35***
Percentage Asian	1.49	2.41	0.39	0.45	−14.92***	0.77	1.56	0.57***
Percentage Hispanic	6.51	10.89	6.04	12.63	−1.01	6.21	12.05	0.83***
Religiosity Index	0.09	0.89	−0.05	1.05	−4.01***	0.00	1.00	0.80***
Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index	−0.35	0.83	0.19	1.03	15.89***	0.00	1.00	0.61***

Note:

^*p≤0.05;

^**p≤0.01;

^***p≤0.001;

^†We first tested whether the variances are equal between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan groups and then conducted T-test accordingly.