Table 3.
Model parameter estimates and standard error (SE) from multilevel generalized linear models of off-sale outlets per 1,000 residents, overall and stratified by county alcohol policy.
| Item | Overall | County alcohol policy1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wet | Damp | |||||
| Estimate (SE) | p-value | Estimate (SE) | p-value | Estimate (SE) | p-value | |
| Intercept | −0.40 (0.11) | 0.0005 | −0.25 (0.08) | 0.002 | −0.17 (0.45) | 0.710 |
| State | 0.08 (0.06) | 0.181 | 0.13 (0.04) | 0.003 | −0.15 (0.20) | 0.471 |
| Black Isolation | ||||||
| County | 0.69 (0.18) | 0.0002 | −0.34 (0.14) | 0.017 | 0.70 (0.53) | 0.191 |
| Tract | 0.13 (0.09) | 0.145 | 0.002 (0.08) | 0.981 | 1.85 (0.51) | 0.0003 |
| Poverty | ||||||
| County | 0.55 (0.60) | 0.359 | 2.53 (0.46) | <0.0001 | −0.57 (1.86) | 0.761 |
| Tract | 1.66 (0.18) | <0.0001 | 1.74 (0.17) | <0.0001 | 0.40 (0.89) | 0.654 |
1
Wet counties have no laws that prohibit or restrict alcohol sales while damp counties prohibit the sale of alcohol in all or some parts of the county.