Table 1. Summary statistics of variables used in analyses.
Outcome variables | Mean | Std Dev |
Neighboring | −0.007 | 0.906 |
Attachment to neighborhood | 0.001 | 0.926 |
Cohesion in neighborhood | −0.004 | 0.891 |
Physical characteristics of neighborhood | ||
Park | ||
Proportion of neighborhood | 0.078 | 0.104 |
Average distance | 0.540 | 0.700 |
Industrial areas | ||
Proportion of neighborhood | 0.018 | 0.039 |
Average distance | 2.181 | 2.550 |
River | ||
Number of splits | 1.556 | 0.880 |
Density of neighborhood | 0.082 | 0.106 |
Patch proportion of neighborhood | 0.139 | 0.138 |
Length | 0.017 | 0.075 |
Highways | 0.168 | 0.374 |
Number of splits | 1.184 | 0.427 |
Density of neighborhood | 0.295 | 0.203 |
Patch proportion of neighborhood | 0.136 | 0.144 |
Length | 0.177 | 0.166 |
Social characteristics of neighborhood | ||
Residential stability | −0.028 | 0.648 |
Median income | 1.243 | 0.375 |
Percent non-Anglo | 23.252 | 11.570 |
Population density | 1.377 | 1.168 |
Household level measures | ||
Speak only English at home | 88.9% | |
Owner | 85.3% | |
Single | 12.3% | |
Widowed | 6.6% | |
Divorced | 9.1% | |
Married | 72.1% | |
Female | 59.0% | |
Have children | 75.3% | |
Middle eastern | 1.7% | |
Asian | 5.9% | |
Southern European | 3.9% | |
African | 0.7% | |
Indigenous | 0.8% | |
White | 87.0% | |
Education | 3.744 | 1.388 |
Household income | 4.378 | 2.159 |
Length of residence | 5.403 | 1.345 |
Age | 0.512 | 0.152 |
Note: Sample size is 4,351 respondents in 146 neighborhoods.