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Table 4 Overall and RUCC-stratified domain variable means, standard deviations, ranges for select variables in the sociodemographic domain

From: Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research

  

Metropolitan - urbanized

Non-metro urbanized

Less-urbanized

Thinly populated

Overall

  

(RUCC1 = 1089)

(RUCC2 = 323)

(RUCC 3 = 1059)

(RUCC4 = 670)

(n = 3141)

Variable (construct)

Units

Mean (sd) [range]

Mean (sd) [range]

Mean (sd) [range]

Mean (sd) [range]

Mean (sd) [range]

Renter occupied (Socioeconomic status (SES))

percent

27.734 (9.557)

29.307 (6.499)

25.338 (5.588)

22.947 (6.814)

26.067 (7.791)

[10.561, 80.458]

[13.562, 52.731]

[13.545, 72.205]

[10.464, 100]

[10.464, 100]

Vacant units (SES)

percent

9.146 (5.810)

12.026 (7.190)

15.324 (8.392)

21.980 (11.880)

14.263 (9.668)

[1.539, 53.707]

[3.457, 58.416]

[4.336, 62.316]

[4.183, 77.014]

[1.539, 77.014]

Median household value (SES)

dollar value

1.10E + 05 (5.51E + 04)

8.86E + 04 (3.48E + 04)

7.25E + 04 (3.90E + 04)

6.09E + 04 (3.06E + 04)

8.46E + 04 (4.77E + 04)

[3.46E + 04, 1.00E + 06]

[3.78E + 04, 3.69E + 05]

[2.26E + 04, 7.50E + 05]

[0, 3.58E + 05]

[0, 1.00E + 06]

Median household income (SES)

dollar value

4.17E + 04 (9.84E + 03)

3.53E + 04 (6.39E + 03)

3.21E + 04 (6.03E + 03)

3.03E + 04 (5.59E + 03)

3.54E + 04 (8.92E + 03)

[1.98E + 04, 8.29E + 04]

[1.65E + 04, 6.27E + 04]

[1.63E + 04, 7.90E + 04]

[9.33E + 03, 5.37E + 04]

[9.33E + 03, 8.29E + 04]

Persons < poverty level (SES)

percent

11.567 (5.307)

14.187 (6.275)

15.601 (6.565)

16.147 (7.107)

14.173 (6.554)

[2.100, 35.900]

[4.500, 50.900]

[2.900, 52.300]

[0, 56.900]

[0, 56.900]

No English (SES)

percent

9.490 (10.534)

9.257 (12.094)

8.451 (12.103)

6.791 (9.492)

8.540 (11.092)

[1.000, 91.900]

[1.900, 92.100]

[0.700, 84.800]

[0.400, 85.400]

[0.400, 92.100]

Earning > high school education (SES)

percent

80.181 (7.546)

78.708 (7.814)

74.877 (8.813)

76.139 (9.478)

77.379 (8.755)

[50.500, 97.000]

[34.700, 93.800]

[43.400, 96.300]

[39.500, 94.400]

[34.700, 97.000]

Unemployed (SES)

percent

5.293 (2.301)

6.433 (2.468)

6.298 (2.757)

5.631 (3.745)

5.821 (2.868)

[1.700, 41.700]

[2.500, 20.900]

[1.400, 33.000]

[0, 41.400]

[0, 41.700]

Work outside county (SES)

percent

40.137 (20.673)

21.479 (12.061)

28.042 (13.447)

32.952 (16.543)

32.608 (17.936)

[1.100, 90.800]

[1.300, 60.800]

[0.600, 77.200]

[0, 76.400]

[0, 90.800]

Median number rooms per house (SES)

count

5.522 (0.459)

5.372 (0.345)

5.361 (0.360)

5.368 (0.485)

5.420 (0.430)

[3.100, 7.300]

[4.000, 6.600]

[3.300, 6.400]

[2.000, 6.500]

[2.000, 7.300]

Housing with > 10 units (SES)

percent

6.856 (7.239)

4.845 (3.542)

2.689 (2.717)

1.475 (2.146)

4.096 (5.268)

[0, 90.100]

[0.600, 35.100]

[0, 42.100]

[0, 31.400]

[0, 90.100]

Mean number of violent crimes per capita (Crime)

rate

390.884 (322.135)

397.099 (374.610)

366.303 (233.612)

352.528 (158.067)

375.054 (272.635)

  

[0, 2481.800]

[0, 1955.500]

[0, 1897.300]

[0, 783.402]

[0, 2481.800]

  1. Complete list of variables is available in Additional file 2.
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