Table 1.
Fast Food Type and Geography | Mean | SD | Median | Lower quartile |
Upper quartile |
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Environment around participant HOMES | |||||
Distance to nearest fast food restaurant (meters) 2 | 900 | 596 | 795 | 496 | 1157 |
800 Meter Network Buffer Count of Restaurants | |||||
Total Fast Food Restaurants | 1.4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
Traditional burgers-and-fries | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Pizza | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Subs and sandwiches | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Other fast food 3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
1,600 Meter Network Buffer | |||||
Total Fast Food Restaurants | 5.7 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 |
Traditional burgers-and-fries | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
Pizza | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
Subs and sandwiches | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Other fast food | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
Environment around participant SCHOOLS | |||||
Distance to nearest fast food restaurant (meters) 2 | 576 | 367 | 430 | 334 | 848 |
800 Meter Network Buffer | |||||
Total Fast Food Restaurants | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
Traditional burgers-and-fries | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Pizza | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Subs and sandwiches | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Other fast food | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
1,600 Meter Network Buffer | |||||
Total Fast Food Restaurants | 5.0 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 7.5 |
Traditional burgers-and-fries | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
Pizza | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 |
Subs and sandwiches | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
Other fast food | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
Data are for participants for whom GIS data were available N = 2724
All linear measures in meters along the street network.
For GIS measures “other” fast food mainly included fried chicken and Mexican restaurants but also includes some other types such as cookie shops, fried fish restaurants, and Asian take-outs.