Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of variables used in this study and racial/ethnic comparisons^†

	Non-Hispanic White (n=13,138)		Non-Hispanic Black (n=4,621)		Hispanics (n=993)

	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Comparison
*Individual Level*
Dependent variable
Self-Rated Health (Fair/poor=1)	0.143	0.350	0.273	0.446	0.259	0.438	^a, ^b
Independent Variables
Age	50.810	17.043	46.027	17.144	37.567	14.424	^a, ^b, ^c
Gender (Male=0)	0.525	0.499	0.593	0.491	0.562	0.496	^a, ^c
Single (Married=0)	0.159	0.365	0.391	0.488	0.332	0.471	^a, ^b, ^c
Other Marital Status (Married=0)	0.141	0.348	0.207	0.405	0.138	0.345	^a, ^c
High school graduates	0.274	0.446	0.418	0.493	0.334	0.472	^a, ^b, ^c
Some college	0.198	0.398	0.224	0.417	0.204	0.403	^a
College graduates	0.288	0.454	0.166	0.372	0.127	0.333	^a, ^b, ^c
Post college graduates	0.192	0.394	0.070	0.255	0.068	0.251	^a, ^b
Insurance coverage (not insured=0)	0.946	0.225	0.865	0.342	0.708	0.455	^a, ^b, ^c
In poverty	0.052	0.223	0.255	0.436	0.319	0.466	^a, ^b, ^c
Employed (Unemployed=0)	0.503	0.500	0.425	0.494	0.448	0.498	^a, ^b
Part-Time Employed	0.119	0.324	0.115	0.319	0.142	0.349	^b, ^c
Other Employment Status	0.316	0.465	0.329	0.470	0.278	0.448	^b, ^c
*Neighborhood level*
Poverty rate	0.080	0.087	0.247	0.146	0.231	0.181	^a, ^b, ^c
Proportion of single Parenthood	0.083	0.067	0.206	0.105	0.186	0.125	^a, ^b, ^c
Proportion of less than high school graduates	0.101	0.080	0.202	0.103	0.232	0.146	^a, ^b, ^c
Proportion of foreign-born	0.269	0.244	0.192	0.232	0.231	0.226	^a, ^b, ^c
Proportion of English proficiency	0.407	0.382	0.406	0.389	0.304	0.311	^b, ^c
Entropy Index	0.141	0.074	0.178	0.129	0.150	0.094	^a, ^c
Isolation Index	0.138	0.150	0.728	0.311	0.374	0.319	^a, ^b, ^c
Absolute Centralization Index	0.074	0.176	0.074	0.164	0.099	0.161	^a, ^b, ^c
Duncan-S Delta Index	0.492	0.094	0.341	0.151	0.432	0.113	^a, ^b, ^c
Spatial Proximity Index	1.002	0.011	1.001	0.018	1.000	0.014	^a

^†

For binary variables, the mean values could be interpreted as the proportions of those who were coded 1. For comparisons between two race/ethnicity groups, we used pair-wise t-test for continuous variables, and Mann-Whitney U test for binary variables.

Significant difference between NHW and NHB.

Significant difference between NHW and Hispanics.

Significant difference between NHB and Hispanic