Table 4.

Estimated coefficients from multilevel regression models predicting BMI change per year by sex

	Women	Men
Race/Ethnicity/Immigrant generation (Ref = First generation Hispanic)
Black	0.04 [−0.27, 0.35]	0.58** [0.15,1.00]
White	0.14 [−0.13,0.43]	0.24 [−0.09,0.58]
Second plus generation Hispanic	0.45** [0.17,0.72]	0.22 [−0.11,0.57]
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.02 [−0.32,0.36]	−0.04 [−0.47,0.39]
Weight (kilograms) wave 1	−0.02** [−0.03, −0.01]	−0.03** [−0.04, −0.03]
Age wave 1	−0.01** [−0.02, −0.00]	−0.01** [−0.02, −0.00]
Less than high school education wave 1	0.08 [−0.13,0.30]	0.18 [−0.07, 0.43]
Married wave 1	−0.16† [−0.33,0.00]	0.14 [−0.06,0.35]
Average height	0.01* [0.00,0.03]	0.02** [0.00,0.04]
Neighborhood disadvantage	−0.09 [−1.20,1.01]	0.82 [−0.54,2.18]
Neighborhood collective efficacy (Ref=Low)
Medium	−0.35** [−0.56, −0.13]	0.14 [−0.12,0.40]
High	−0.34* [−0.65, −0.03]	0.20 [-0.15,0.56]
N	572	403

Source: L.A. FANS waves 1 and 2, 2000 Census, and 2005–2009 ACS estimates. 95% confidence intervals are reported in brackets. Individual coefficients are statistically significant at the **1%, *5%, †10% level.