Table 3.

Beta coefficients and correlations of reduced path model of neighborhood characteristics, illicit drug-using social networks, and illicit drug use among African American adults relocated from public housing in Atlanta, Georgia, controlling for baseline participant socio-demographic characteristics

Characteristics	Drug use (1)	Drug use (2)	Drug use (7)	Drug- using network (1)	Drug- using network (2)	Drug- using network (7)	Economic disadvantage (1)	Economic disadvantage (2)	Economic disadvantage (7)	Violent crime (1)	Violent crime (2)	Violent crime (7)
Drug use (1)		0.955**		(0.459)**				0.919*			0.259
Drug use (2)			1.074*		(0.472)*
Drug use (7)						(0.962)*
Drug-using network (1)	(0.459)**				0.387*
Drug-using network (2)		(0.472)*	−0.517‡			0.626*
Drug-using network (7)			(0.962)*
Economic disadvantage (1)	0.575*			0.156						(0.821)**
Economic disadvantage (2)									0.430**		(0.562)**
Economic disadvantage (7)												(0.713)**
Violent crime rates (1)	−0.351‡			−0.320			(0.821)**
Violent crime rates (2)						0.307*		(0.563)**				0.524**
Violent crime rates (7)									(0.713)**
Control variables
Baseline age	−0.251*	−0.004	−0.108	−0.461**	−0.036	0.024	−0.060	−0.031	−0.193*	0.162*	−0.046	0.023
Baseline gender	0.171	−0.179	0.201	−0.076	−0.236	−0.251	0.092	−1.051‡	0.047	0.137	−0.424	0.014
Baseline income	0.031	0.107	−0.060	−0.015	0.086	0.097	−0.054	0.160‡	−0.093	−0.064	0.074	−0.136‡

Note: correlations are enclosed in parentheses

^**p<0.001;

^*p<0.05;

^‡p<0.10