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. 2019 Dec 27;18:31. doi: 10.1186/s12942-019-0195-7

Table 2.

Neighborhood characteristics of stores visited, reported favorability, store avoidance, and neighborhood avoidance

Stores Store favorability Store avoidance Neighborhood avoidance
Rated Not rated High (≥ 70%) Low (< 70%) Low (< 10) High (≥ 10) None (0) Some (1–3) Many (≥ 4)
n 22 244 11 11 15 7 6 10 6
Lone parenthood (%) 0.30 0.31 0.28 0.33 0.28 0.36 0.21 0.29 0.41
Poverty (%) 0.35 0.35 0.31 0.38 0.32 0.40 0.25 0.36 0.42
Unemployment (%) 0.21 0.20 0.17 0.25 0.17 0.28 0.14 0.19 0.31
No high school Diploma (%) 0.29 0.25 0.25 0.33 0.27 0.34 0.18 0.33 0.33
Lone parenthood z-score − 0.06 0.00 − 0.33 0.22 − 0.32 0.51 − 0.98 − 0.18 1.08
Poverty z-score 0.01 0.00 − 0.27 0.29 − 0.16 0.37 − 0.74 0.12 0.56
Unemployment z-score 0.04 − 0.01 − 0.36 0.43 − 0.33 0.83 − 0.72 − 0.19 1.16
No high school diploma z-score 0.28 − 0.03 0.00 0.56 0.10 0.66 − 0.54 0.58 0.60
Socioeconomic distress 0.27 − 0.04 − 0.97 1.50 − 0.71 2.37 − 2.97 0.33 3.40
Food stamp usage 0.38 0.37 0.35 0.40 0.35 0.43 0.27 0.40 0.44
African-American 0.46 0.41 0.31 0.62 0.33 0.75 0.28 0.34 0.85