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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Subst Use Misuse. 2011 Dec 2;47(3):244–253. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2011.632465

Table 2.

Characteristics of neighborhoods (colonias) of residence of mobile vs. less mobile IDUs (n=212)

Colonia characteristic More mobile
IDUs (n=51)
Less mobile
IDUs (n=161)
P-
value*
Odds
Ratio
95%
Confidence
Interval
%

Colonia considered high drug activity area by police 63.0 79.1 0.018 0.45 (0.23–0.88)
Health center present 25.5 22.2 0.623 1.20 (0.59–2.43)
Drug treatment center present 23.6 41.9 0.015 0.43 (0.20–0.90)

Median %

Residents living in Tijuana at least 10 years 82.2 72.7 <0.001
Residents born in the state of Baja California 41.3 35.1 <0.001
Married 37.2 32.1 <0.001
Home ownership 60.9 44.4 <0.001
Female headed households 23.4 27.5 <0.001
*

Based on Pearson chi-square or Mann-Whitney U test