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. 2015 Dec;105(12):2496–2502. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302882

TABLE 1—

Sample Description, 25 Census Tracts, and 12 Schools: Community Interventions for Health Study, Student Module, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009

Variable No. (%) or Mean ±SDa
Student-level variables (n = 811)
 BMI percentile 71.8 ±29.52
 BMI z score 0.81 ±1.17
 Latino 392 (48.3)
 Black 327 (40.3)
 White/other 92 (11.3)
 Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch 734 (90.5)
 Meets 2010 dietary guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake 26 ±3.21
 Exercises 1 h each day 176 (21.7)
 Neighborhood social ties (0–5) 3.00 ±1.32
Neighborhood-level variables (n = 25)
 % Latino 24.84 ±18.52
 % Black 39.36 ±19.84
 Concentrated affluence 23.99 ±14.12
 Concentrated disadvantage 17.26 ±6.99
 Aggregated neighborhood social ties (0–5) 3.05 ±0.05
School-level variables (n = 12)
 % Latino 46.92 ±28.88
 % Black 37.43 ±24.30
 % eligible for free or reduced-price lunch 82.70 ±9.71
 School Connectedness Scale (5–25) 19.34 ±1.51

Note. BMI = body mass index.

a

Mean ±SD for continuous variables and No. (%) for categorical variables.