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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2013 Dec;35(12):1933–1940. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.09.019

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for rates of child maltreatment, alcohol outlet density, substance abuse service accessibility, and socioeconomic controls for Bergen County, NJ census tracts, 2003 (n=163)

Mean Standard Deviation
Child maltreatment rate1 3.97 4.06
Alcohol outlet density2 2.46 2.80
Substance abuse service access3 1.39 .90
Socioeconomic Controls
 % in poverty 4.78 3.29
 % unemployed 3.92 1.96
 % vacant housing units 2.45 1.38
 % 5 year residential movement 36.62 8.62
 % single female-headed households 5.38 3.28
 Child to adult ratio .31 .07
 Male to female ratio .89 .06
 % population over 65 15.09 3.50
 % African American 4.67 10.92
 % Asian 10.46 8.58
 % Latino/Hispanic 10.01 8.56
 % immigrant population 24.52 11.96
1

Measured as number of child maltreatment reports per 1000 children

2

Measured as number of outlets per 10km of roadway

3

Distance in miles from centroid of each census tract to nearest facility