Table 1. Individual and metropolitan-level descriptive statistics.
| Mean or % | SD | |
| Diabetes diagnosis | ||
| Yes | 9.1% | |
| No | 90.9% | |
| Individual SES | ||
| Education level | ||
| Less than high schoola | 27.3% | |
| High school graduate | 3.3% | |
| Some college | 23.5% | |
| Graduated college | 18.9% | |
| Household income | ||
| Less than $15,000a | 18.7% | |
| $15,000 - $25,000 | 3.5% | |
| $25,000 - $35,000 | 15.4% | |
| $35,000 - $50,000 | 13.2% | |
| > $50,000 | 22.3% | |
| Employed | 67.7% | |
| Individual Controls | ||
| Body mass index | ||
| Body mass index categories | 27.8 | 5.9 |
| Underweight | 1.4% | |
| Normal weighta | 31.6% | |
| Overweight | 38.6% | |
| Obese | 28.4% | |
| Smoker status | ||
| Current smokera | 17.7% | |
| Former smoker | 19.9% | |
| Never smoked | 62.3% | |
| Physical activity (minutes of moderate activity) | 53.3 | 73.5 |
| Insured | 69.1% | |
| Age | 41.8 | 15.01 |
| Sex | ||
| Malea | 39.6% | |
| Female | 60.4% | |
| Marital status | ||
| Never married, separated | 38.6% | |
| Married, cohabitatinga | 61.4% | |
| Fruit/Vegetable Intake | ||
| Less than 5 times per daya | 77.9% | |
| 5+ times per day | 22.1% | |
| General health | ||
| Excellent | 17.3% | |
| Very good | 23.9% | |
| Good | 34.4% | |
| Fair | 18.8% | |
| Poora | 5.7% | |
| Segregation measuresb | ||
| Nonsegregateda | 4.0% | |
| Segregated | 95.0% | |
| Hypersegregated | 1.0% | |
| Area SES | ||
| Total MSA population | .15 | .18 |
| Proportion in poverty | .14 | .049 |
| Hispanic population | 701448.8 | 806196.5 |
n=7,462.
n for MSA = 198.
a. Indicates a category used as the base category for logistic regression.
b. Summary is at MSA level.
c. .55 cutoff, Wilkes’ Index.