Table 2. Numbers of food stores and food service places per 10000 population by city level of income and urbanization, mean (SE)*.
| Total | By per capita disposable income | By urbanization index | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 333 | Low | Middle | High | Low | Medium | High | |
| (N = 107) | (N = 101) | (N = 125) | (N = 94) | (N = 116) | (N = 123) | ||
| Food stores | |||||||
| Large-sized supermarkets | 2.1 (0.25) | 1.6 (0.25) | 2.1 (0.45) | 2.2 (0.40) | 1.6 (0.32) | 2.2(0.54) | 2.1(0.32) |
| Small/medium-sized markets | 57.0 (11.70) | 91.4 (14.00) | 73.8 (24.92) | 37.0 (6.91) | 81.5 (12.07) | 90.2 (13.61) | 40.9 (10.91) |
| Specialty retailers | 23.2 (5.26) | 37.6 (14.35) | 26.1 (10.41) | 16.8 (3.95) | 26.7 (5.73) | 39.7 (12.00) | 16.6 (4.39) |
| Total | 82.3 (16.73) | 130.6 (28.43) | 101.9 (35.41) | 56.0 (11.18) | 109.9 (17.36) | 132.0 (25.26) | 59.5 (15.27) |
| Food service places | |||||||
| Western fast food | 3.0 (0.59) | 2.1 (1.18) | 2.9 (0.52) | 3.4 (0.91) | 1.7 (0.46) | 2.5 (0.94) | 3.4(0.78) |
| Chinese fast food | 5.1 (1.41) | 4.5 (1.55) | 9.4 (2.90) | 3.4 (1.07) | 7.1 (1.06) | 7.0 (2.61) | 4.2 (1.65) |
| Medium/large-sized Chinese full-service | 17.9 (2.39) | 22.5 (4.59) | 16.5 (5.69) | 16.9 (2.77) | 15.9 (1.95) | 21.2 (3.85) | 16.9 (3.22) |
| Small-sized Chinese full-service | 75.7 (15.68) | 121.5 (36.67) | 97.4 (29.53) | 49.3 (4.92) | 88.3 (16.23) | 129.2 (32.20) | 54.0 (10.54) |
| Tea & juice bars | 9.3 (2.20) | 15.7 (5.90) | 10.1 (4.83) | 6.7 (0.30) | 8.3(2.00) | 14.7 (5.14) | 7.5 (2.03) |
| Total | 111.0 (19.20) | 166.2 (39.62) | 136.2 (39.90) | 79.6 (6.40) | 121.3 (17.08) | 174.6 (33.84) | 86.0 (15.79) |
*SE adjusted for city clustering.