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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 May;39(5):768–776. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00735

Exhibit 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of 316,600 women delivering in New York City in 2012–14, by racial and economic spatial polarization measures

ICE Race ICE Income ICE Race-Income



Characteristics No. Quintile 1 (n = 69,437) Quintile 5 (n = 37,824) Quintile 1 (n = 107,038) Quintile 5 (n = 34,088) Quintile 1 (n = 84,597) Quintile 5 (n = 36,341)
Race/ethnicity
 Black 66,281 58% 3% 28% 5% 50% 3%
 Latina 98,569 29 11 44 9 41 9
 Non-Latina white 95,708 8 71 14 69 6 71
 Asian 56,042 5 15 15 17 4 16
Age, years
 Less than 20 14,221 7 1 7 1 8 1
 20 to less than 35 231,732 74 63 77 59 75 60
 35 to less than 40 54,713 14 27 13 30 13 30
 40 or more 15,934 4 8 4 10 4 9
Born in US
 No 154,629 47 33 51 26 48 27
 Yes 161,971 53 67 49 74 52 73
Education
 Less than high school 68,220 23 5 32 3 28 3
 High school 71,457 26 7 29 4 27 5
 Some college 71,523 31 13 25 9 30 10
 College or more 105,400 20 75 15 84 16 82
Insurance during pregnancy
 Medicaid 199,977 75 19 83 10 80 11
 Private or other 116,623 25 81 17 90 20 89
Previous live births
 No 142,056 42 58 40 62 41 61
 Yes 174,544 58 42 60 38 59 39

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of New York City birth certificate and hospital discharge data linked to American Community Survey data.

NOTES The Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) measure for race (ICE Race) is the relative concentration of non-Hispanic black to non-Hispanic white populations in the mother’s or hospital’s ZIP code. The ICE measure for income (ICE Income) is the relative concentration of low-income households to high-income households in a ZIP code. The ICE measure for race and income (ICE Race-Income) is the relative concentration of low-income black households to high-income white households in a ZIP code. For all three indices, quintile 1 is the highest relative concentration and quintile 5 is the lowest. Chi-square bivariate tests of frequencies of all characteristics by each ICE measure were significant (p < 0.001).