Table 1.
Type III Tests of Fixed Effects | ||||||||
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Summary statistics | Black premature births |
Hispanic premature births |
White premature births |
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Variables | Mean | STD* | F-value | p | F-value | p | F-value | p |
Percentage of Black women’s babies born premature in 2019 | 12.96 | 1.99 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Percentage of Hispanic women’s babies born premature in 2019 | 8.95 | 1.64 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Percentage of White women’s babies born premature in 2019 | 8.63 | 1.19 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Jail admission rate per 100,000 county adult residents in 2018 | 6,137.37 | 8,364.74 | 2.31 | 0.13 | 1.85 | 0.17 | 6.61 | <0.0001 |
Distressed Communities Index (0–100) | 54.08 | 28.99 | 54.50 | <0.0001 | 1.70 | 0.19 | 82.17 | <0.0001 |
Index of Relative Rurality (0–100) |
47.02 | 8.39 | 19.35 | <0.0001 | 2.63 | 0.10 | 74.38 | <0.0001 |
Standard deviation.
Note: Dependent variables for premature birth are log-transformed.