Table 1.
Summary statistics for variables used in the analysis*
| Variable | Period | Eastern counties (large sample) | Eastern counties (small sample) | Non-eastern counties | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| WUlpop | 2000 | 0.377 | 0.324 | 0.429 | 0.321 | 0.478 | 0.303 |
| WUlpop | 2010 | 0.384 | 0.329 | 0.432 | 0.324 | 0.489 | 0.306 |
| LDI | 1992–1996 | 39.9 | 202.8 | 83.7 | 297.3 | 3.9 | 13.4 |
| LDI | 1997–2001 | 54.3 | 224.4 | 117.0 | 324.8 | 2.3 | 6.2 |
| LDI | 2002–2006 | 84.4 | 259.7 | 180.6 | 365.4 | 2.2 | 7.1 |
| LDI | 2007–2011 | 114.9 | 232.2 | 238.3 | 300.9 | 2.3 | 13.7 |
| Income | 1995 | 44,255 | 10,213 | 45,400 | 10,591 | 36,500 | 8,351 |
| Income | 2005 | 44,885 | 11,146 | 46,841 | 11,522 | 36,662 | 8,455 |
| No. observations | 903 | 404 | 2,204 | ||||
*
WUIpop is the share of the county population living in the wildland-urban interface; LDI is the number of confirmed cases of Lyme disease in a county per 100,000 population; Income is mean household income in 2005 U.S. dollars. Eastern counties (large sample), Eastern counties (small sample), and Non-eastern counties represent the three different samples evaluated.