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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Nov 14;123(7):1219–1227. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30431

Table 1.

Distribution of Social Determinants According to Summary Score Quintile

Social Determinants Quintile

Area-level Social Determinants of Health Most
disadvantaged
2 Middle 4 Least
disadvantaged
No. of patients 79,019 69,990 70,456 72,788 72,254
Mean summary score −6.1 −1.8 0.68 2.7 5.1
Wealth/Income
  Median household income ($) $42,885 $53,008 $55,891 $67,301 $78,249
  Persons below federal poverty level (%) 21.9% 16.9% 14.1% 11.6% 8.6%
Education
  Adult residents who completed high school (%) 77.8% 80.2% 86.9% 87.9% 90.7%
  Adult residents who completed college (%) 17.1% 26.8% 28.0% 34.8% 41.9%
Employment
  Employed residents (%) 86.7% 89.1% 90.7% 90.9% 92.1%