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Published in final edited form as: Spat Demogr. 2021 Aug 24;10(1):33–74. doi: 10.1007/s40980-021-00095-6

Table 4.

County-level contextual characteristics by source and year coverage

	Source	Years	Extrapolated
Population with a college degree, %	2000 Census, 2014–2018 five-year pooled ACS	2000, 2014–2018
Families with a child < 18 and single householder, %	2000 Census, 2014–2018 five-year pooled ACS	2000, 2014–2018
Population below federal poverty threshold, %	Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program	2000, 2015
Proportion of employed in manufacturing sector, %	Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)	2000, 2017
Proportion of labor force that is unemployed, %	Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)	2000, 2017
Proportion of total population in working-ages, %	2000 Census, 2014–2018 five-year pooled ACS	2000, 2014–2018
Proportion of total population foreign-born, %	2000 Census, 2014–2018 five-year pooled ACS	2000, 2014–2018
Smoking prevalence (cigarette smoking in adults aged 20 and older), %	Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)	2000–2012	X
Obesity prevalence (proportion of adults aged 20 and older that report a BMI of 30 or more), %	Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)	2004–2013	X

Note: Several indicators have to be interpolated to our modelling range (2000–2017) by using linear projection with an annualized growth rate forward to 2017 or backward to 2000