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. 2020 Sep 29;17(19):7143. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17197143

Table A1.

Summary of logistic regression models predicting diet quality by residing in a food swamp or food desert (measured using mRFEI), stratified by race. ** FULL MODEL **.

Independent Variables/Covariates All Non-Hispanic White (N = 2912) Non-Hispanic Black (N = 954) Hispanic (N = 162)
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Lower Upper Lower Upper Lower Upper Lower Upper
Residing in Food swamp 1 0.75 *** 0.66 0.84 0.75 *** 0.64 0.87 0.66 ** 0.51 0.86 1.53 0.79 2.96
Residing in Food desert 0.74 * 0.58 0.94 0.75 * 0.56 0.99 0.81 0.48 1.39 0.25 0.05 1.27
Lower income (vs. higher income) 0.86 * 0.74 0.99 0.85 * 0.73 0.99 0.90 0.68 1.18 1.51 0.78 2.93
Non-Hispanic Black 2 0.66 * 0.53 0.82 - - - - - - - - -
Non-Hispanic Asian 0.83 0.49 1.41 - - - - - - - - -
Non-Hispanic Other 1.51 0.98 2.30
Hispanic 0.86 0.56 1.31 - - - - - - - - -
High school or less 3 0.45 *** 0.39 0.53 0.45 *** 0.37 0.54 0.58 ** 0.38 0.87 0.46 0.17 1.29
Associate’s degree and some college 0.75 *** 0.65 0.85 0.76 ** 0.64 0.89 0.74 * 0.56 0.97 0.97 0.48 1.98
Single without children 4 0.89 0.60 1.32 0.95 0.56 1.61 0.84 0.43 1.65 0.68 0.08 6.02
Single with children 0.81 0.53 1.23 0.84 0.47 1.48 0.77 0.38 1.58 1.11 0.09 14.09
Married with children 1.28 0.82 1.98 1.3 0.75 2.30 1.28 0.53 3.14 2.45 0.23 25.81
Life partner without children 1.11 0.74 1.67 1.19 0.70 2.02 0.92 0.45 1.87 0.40 0.04 4.25
Life partner with children 1.08 0.67 1.74 1.15 0.63 2.10 0.81 0.32 2.09 1.30 0.08 21.15
Own a car or someone in my house owns a car (vs. do not own a car) 1.16 0.92 1.45 1.29 0.93 1.79 0.97 0.68 1.37 3.42 0.61 19.22
Male (vs. female) 0.77 *** 0.69 0.87 0.76 ** 0.66 0.88 0.83 0.63 1.09 0.54 0.28 1.06
Midwest 5 0.72 ** 0.60 0.87 0.73** 0.59 0.90 0.73 0.47 1.14 0.621 0.20 1.96
Northeast 0.91 0.75 1.09 0.93 0.74 1.17 0.71 0.47 1.09 1.23 0.46 3.34
Southeast 0.72 *** 0.60 0.85 0.73 ** 0.59 0.90 0.58 ** 0.39 0.86 1.51 0.64 3.55
Southwest 0.80 0.64 1.00 0.88 0.67 1.17 0.52 * 0.29 0.90 0.66 0.25 1.74
Urban 6 0.89 0.75 1.05 0.98 0.80 1.21 0.70 0.46 1.06 0.64 0.24 1.70
Suburban 0.95 0.82 1.10 0.91 0.77 1.07 1.04 0.68 1.56 0.62 0.23 1.67
Age 1.01 *** 1.01 1.01 1.01 * 1.00 1.01 1.02 *** 1.01 1.03 1.02 0.99 1.05
Low income* Black/ 0.19 0.01 2.87 - - - - - - - - -
Low income * Asian 1.12 0.84 1.48 - - - - - - - - -
Low income * Other 1.29 0.56 2.97 - - - - - - - - -
Low income * Hispanic 0.72 0.40 1.29 - - - - - - - - -

1 Reference group is not living in food swamp/desert areas. 2 Reference group is Non-Hispanic White. 3 Reference group is Bachelor’s degree or higher. 4 Reference group is married without children. 5 Reference group is West. 6 Reference group is rural. 7 Reference group is high income * White. Outcome variable diet quality has three mutually exclusive categories: low, medium, high. Health quality has five mutually exclusive categories: poor, fair, good, very good, excellent. Weight status has four mutually exclusive categories: slightly underweight, about right, slightly overweight, very overweight. Abbreviations: OR, odds ratios; CI, confidence interval; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.