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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2014 Jun 17;18(6):977–982. doi: 10.1017/S1368980014001281

Table 2.

Agreement statistics for Latino food stores and restaurants, and for all food stores and restaurants by Hispanic composition of census tract, Nielsen TDLinx and D&B

Sensitivity*
Food outlet type TDLinx D&B TDLinx &/or D&B
Food stores
Latino stores (all census tracts)
Grocery and Supermarket (n=9) 1 (11%) 4 (44%) 4 (44%)
Convenience stores (n=6) 2 (33%) 4 (67%) 4 (67%)
Small specialty food stores (n=8) 1 (13%) 4 (50%) 5 (63%)
Other (n=1) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Total Latino food stores (n=25) 5 (20%) 13 (52%) 14 (56%)
All food stores by Hispanic/non-Hispanic census tracts
Hispanic§ census tracts (total food stores, n=73) 51 (70%) 40 (55%) 60 (82%)
Non-Hispanic census tracts (total food stores, n=101) 71 (70%) 52 (51%) 74 (73%)
Restaurants
Latino restaurants (all census tracts)
Counter service, not fast food (n=12) n/a 4 (33%) n/a
Fast food (n=1) n/a 0 (0%) n/a
Sit-down restaurants (n=13) n/a 6 (46%) n/a
Total Latino restaurants (n=26) n/a 10 (38%) n/a
All restaurants by Hispanic/non-Hispanic census tracts
Hispanic census tracts§ (total restaurants, n=130) n/a 86 (66%) n/a
Non-Hispanic census tracts (total restaurants, n=207) n/a 114 (55%) n/a
*

Match defined as a food store observed in the field and listed in a secondary data source

Food outlets that were classified as both a food store and a restaurant by the field auditors (n=10) were included in both the food store and restaurant counts, regardless of their classification in secondary data sources

One food store was not given a store sub-category during the field audit

§

Hispanic census tract defined as ≥23.4% Hispanic population (upper quartile)