Table 1.
Characteristics of survey sample. Mayors and their senior staff, stratified by identification of stress as having a very strong effect on health disparities
| Characteristics | Stress identified as having no/moderate effect of health disparities (n =124) | Stress identified as having major effect on health disparities (n = 100) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | Obs. | % | Obs. | ||
| Individual characteristics | |||||
| Education | 123 | 98 | 0.64 | ||
| College degree or less | 47.2 | 38.8 | |||
| Master’s degree | 35.0 | 50.0 | |||
| Doctoral degree | 17.9 | 11.2 | |||
| Years in office | 124 | 99 | 1.00 | ||
| <3 years | 31.5 | 31.3 | |||
| ≥3 years | 68.5 | 68.7 | |||
| Fiscal ideology | 118 | 97 | 0.10 | ||
| Liberal | 11.0 | 17.5 | |||
| Moderate | 26.3 | 29.9 | |||
| Conservative | 62.7 | 52.6 | |||
| Social ideology | 119 | 97 | 0.06 | ||
| Liberal | 41.2 | 50.5 | |||
| Moderate | 30.3 | 33.0 | |||
| Conservative | 28.6 | 16.5 | |||
| Area characteristics | |||||
| Census region | 124 | 100 | 0.15 | ||
| Northeast | 8.9 | 16.0 | |||
| South | 31.5 | 33.0 | |||
| Midwest | 31.5 | 20.0 | |||
| West | 28.2 | 31.0 | |||
| Population size | 124 | 100 | 0.14 | ||
| <100,000 | 63.7 | 54.0 | |||
| ≥100,000 | 36.3 | 46.0 | |||
| M(SD) | M(SD) | ||||
| Percentage of poverty | 17.4 (7.8) | 123 | 18.1 (7.7) | 100 | 0.49 |
| Percentage of non-Whites | 32.9 (87.0) | 124 | 49.7 (23.1) | 100 | 0.04 |