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Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2016 Apr;18(2):345–352. doi: 10.1007/s10903-015-0186-0

Table II.

Relationship between Perceived Food Environment and Healthy Eating in a Sample of Los Angeles County Residents, LA HANES II, 2012 (n=1,440)^a

Variable	Incident Rate Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)	P value
Focal Independent Variable
Perceived food environment	1.047 (1.007, 1.089)	0.021
Control Variables
Race
Referent: African American/Black	-----	-----
Hispanic/Latino	0.968 (0.852, 1.100)	0.612
White/Non-Hispanic	0.810 (0.678, 0.967)	0.020
Other	1.067 (0.899, 1.267)	0.459
Gender
Referent: Female	-----	-----
Male	0.911 (0.821, 1.010)	0.077
Education Level
Referent: Less than high school	-----	-----
High school graduate	1.052 (0.888, 1.245)	0.559
Some college	0.972 (0.832, 1.137)	0.724
College graduate	0.945 (0.783, 1.140)	0.551
Postgraduate/professional degree	1.293 (0.983, 1.701)	0.066
Age	1.006 (1.002, 1.011)	0.002
Nutritional knowledge	0.976 (0.847, 1.125)	0.740

LA HANES II = the second round of the Los Angeles County Health and Examination Survey.

N includes survey participants who reported no missing data on any of the variables included in the multivariable model.