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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):483–491. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.06.005

Table 1.

Descriptive Information on Neighborhood-Level Variables

Mean (SD) Range
Neighborhood economic disadvantage 0.12 (0.06) 0.03–0.28
 Proportion of residents below the poverty level 0.17 (0.11) 0.03–0.53
 Proportion of residents unemployed 0.07 (0.05) 0.00–0.24
 Proportion of residents receiving public assistance 0.18 (0.09) 0.03–0.43
 Proportion of female-headed households 0.04 (0.04) 0.00–0.22
Residential instability 0.72 (0.22) 0.14–1.25
 Proportion of residents who lived in neighborhood <5 years 0.29 (0.19) 0.09–0.76
 Proportion of renter-occupied homes 0.43 (0.09) 0.21–0.62
Ethnic heterogeneity 0.42 (0.12) 0.00–0.75
Social disorganization 1.31 (0.20) 0.46–2.54
Neighborhood violence 1.28 (0.28) 0.01–2.69

Note: Means calculated at the block-group level (N=65 block groups).