Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the mortality rate and independent variables (N=3,107)

	Mean	Std. Dev.	Minimum	Maximum	VIF†
Mortality Rate	8.913	1.453	2.904	18.889	N.A.
Racial/Ethnic Composition
Non-Hispanic Black	0.089	0.144	0.000	0.868	1.847
Hispanic	0.076	0.128	0.000	0.986	1.619
Non-Hispanic Other Races	0.040	0.069	0.000	0.910	1.714
Rural/Urban Residence
RUCC	5.109	2.680	1.000	9.000	2.101
Health Care Infrastructure
% w/o Health Insurance	18.029	6.108	7.100	47.000	1.750
MD per 1,000 pop.	1.215	1.510	0.000	29.353	1.738
Hospital Beds per 1,000 pop.	3.630	5.545	0.000	104.157	1.206
Socioeconomic Status
Social Affluence	0.000	1.000	−7.676	5.382	2.139
Concentrated Disadvantage	0.000	1.000	−2.842	10.166	2.761
Social Capital
SCI Score	−0.002	1.642	−3.804	15.222	1.848
Violent Crime Rate	1.317	1.158	0.000	11.844	1.587
Property Crime Rate	3.900	2.852	0.000	27.696	1.525
Residential Stability	0.000	0.887	−5.430	2.238	1.503
Income Inequality
Gini Coefficient	0.431	0.037	0.272	0.621	1.565

Notes:

^†Variance inflation factor is a measure of multicollinearity among the independent variables; N.A.: Not applicable.