Table 2. Distribution of food store types in municipalities across exam year stratified by urbanization: the National Statistical Directory of Economic Units (DENUE), 2010–2020.
| Counts of food stores, [median (p25,p75)] | Number of municipalities with no food stores, [n (%)] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 |
| Overall | n = 2454 | n = 2454 | n = 2454 | n = 2454 | n = 2454 | n = 2454 |
| Total food stores | 88 (30, 269) | 92.5 (33, 283) | 98 (35, 303) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Small food retail stores | 67 (26, 196) | 68 (26, 200) | 69 (27, 199) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Specialty food stores | 11 (2, 38) | 14 (3, 46) | 17 (4, 55) | 350 (14.3) | 293 (11.9) | 217 (8.8) |
| Fruit and vegetable stores | 4 (0,16) | 4 (1,18) | 5 (1,20) | 634 (25.8) | 568 (23.2) | 525 (21.4) |
| Candy and ice cream stores | 3 (1, 12) | 3 (1, 13) | 4 (1, 13) | 585 (23.8) | 592 (24.1) | 565 (23.0) |
| Seed and grain stores | 0 (0, 2) | 0 (0, 3) | 1 (0, 4) | 1449 (59.1) | 1258 (51.3) | 1157 (47.2) |
| Chain convenience stores | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 1) | 0 (0, 2) | 1974 (80.4) | 1672 (68.1) | 1527 (62.2) |
| Supermarkets | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 1) | 2025 (82.5) | 1860 (75.8) | 1800 (73.4) |
| Non-urban areas a | n = 2048 | n = 2048 | n = 2048 | n = 2048 | n = 2048 | n = 2048 |
| Total food stores | 65 (26, 167.5) | 68 (27, 183) | 74 (28.5, 190) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Small food retail stores | 51 (22, 123) | 51 (22, 128) | 53 (22, 129.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Specialty food stores | 7 (1, 24) | 10 (2, 29) | 11 (3, 34) | 349 (17.0) | 293 (14.3) | 217 (10.6) |
| Fruit and vegetable stores | 2 (0, 9) | 3 (0, 10) | 3 (0, 12) | 629 (30.7) | 566 (27.6) | 524 (25.6) |
| Candy and ice cream stores | 2 (0, 8) | 2 (0, 8) | 3 (0, 8) | 579 (28.3) | 588 (28.7) | 562 (27.4) |
| Seed and grain stores | 0 (0, 1) | 0 (0, 2) | 0 (0, 2) | 1355 (66.2) | 1203 (58.7) | 1117 (54.5) |
| Chain convenience stores | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 1) | 1823 (89.0) | 1590 (77.6) | 1460 (71.3) |
| Supermarkets | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 0) | 0 (0, 0) | 1830 (89.4) | 1716 (83.8) | 1661 (81.1) |
| Urban areas a | n = 406 | n = 406 | n = 406 | n = 406 | n = 406 | n = 406 |
| Total food stores | 623.5 (206, 1840) | 674.5 (244, 1922) | 739.5 (257, 2060) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Small food retail stores | 433 (146, 1231) | 459.5 (165, 1240) | 476 (177, 1202) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Specialty food stores | 89.5 (28, 264) | 108 (39, 293) | 129.5 (48, 346) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Fruit and vegetable stores | 34 (12, 122) | 41.5 (14, 139) | 48.5 (15, 157) | 5 (1.2) | 2 (0.5) | 1 (0.3) |
| Candy and ice cream stores | 29 (9, 96) | 34 (10, 102) | 37.5 (12, 117) | 6 (1.5) | 4 (1.0) | 3 (0.7) |
| Seed and grain stores | 3 (1, 18) | 6 (2, 23) | 8 (2, 30) | 94 (23.2) | 55 (13.6) | 40 (9.9) |
| Chain convenience stores | 2 (0, 15) | 6 (1, 33) | 8.5 (2, 46) | 151 (37.2) | 82 (20.2) | 67 (16.5) |
| Supermarkets | 1 (0, 7) | 1.5 (0, 9) | 2 (0, 10) | 195 (48.0) | 144 (35.5) | 139 (34.2) |
p25 = 25th percentile, p75 = 75th percentile.
a
Urbanization is defined by the population in 2010: urban areas are municipalities that belong to a city with more than 100,000 residents as defined by SALURBAL (Diez Roux et al., 2019; (Quistberg et al., 2019), while non-urban areas refer to all other municipalities (see Methods section).