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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2020 Mar;125(5):1303–1344. doi: 10.1086/709016

Table 1.

Characteristics of the OUR Walmart samples

OUR Walmart – zip code incarceration data
N (%)
Participants 16,137
States 2
Zip codes 1,379
Association member: Yes 835 (5.2)
Association member: No 15,302 (94.8)
Mean (standard deviation, min, max)
Zip code prison admission rate per 1,000 5.3 (5.68, 0, 40.2)
Percent zip code black 19.7 (19, 0, 96.7
Percent zip code poor 21.3 (11.5, 0, 76.3)
OUR Walmart – state incarceration data
N (%)
Participants 68, 653
States 51 (including Washington, DC)
Association member: Yes 3,215 (5.1)
Association member: No 59,844 (94.9)
Mean (standard deviation, min, max)
State incarceration rate per 1,000 4.5 (1.3, 1.3, 8.5)
Percent county black 14.6 (12.8, 0.24, 82.6)
OUR Walmart – individual-level incarceration data
N (%)
Participants 691
Association member: Yes 123 (17.8)
Association member: No 567 (82.2)
White 480 (69.5)
Person of color 211 (30.5)
Male 260 (37.6)
Female 431 (62.4)
Ever incarcerated 19 (2.8)
Any criminal justice contact 27 (4.9)