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) | ||||||||
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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.