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Table 5 Overall and RUCC-stratified domain variable means, standard deviations, ranges for select variables in the built environment 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]

Roads that are highways

mile proportion

0.045 (0.026)

0.045 (0.025)

0.039 (0.029)

0.029 (0.031)

0.039 (0.029)

(Road system)

[0, 0.156]

[0, 0.158]

[0, 0.210]

[0, 0.291]

[0, 0.291]

Roads that are primary streets

mile proportion

0.171 (0.059)

0.148 (0.067)

0.136 (0.063)

0.119 (0.063)

0.146 (0.065)

(Road system)

[0.009, 0.536]

[0.015, 0.438]

[0, 0.406]

[0, 0.371]

[0, 0.536]

Traffic fatality rate

fatalities per co. pop

4.72E-04 (3.92E-04)

5.14E-04 (2.63E-04)

6.94E-04 (5.48E-04)

9.45E-04 (1.33E-03)

6.52E-04 (7.57E-04)

(Road safety)

[0, 5.04E-03]

[0, 1.60E-03]

[0, 6.29E-03]

[0, 1.10E-02]

[0, 1.10E-02]

Population using public transport

percent

1.699 (4.542)

0.714 (1.033)

0.447 (0.780)

0.393 (0.603)

0.897 (2.809)

(Public transit behavior)

[0, 59.600]

[0, 8.800]

[0, 10.600]

[0, 6.900]

[0, 59.600]

Vice-related

count per county population

3.56E-04 (2.10E-04)

4.48E-04 (2.29E-04)

4.71E-04 (3.32E-04)

7.25E-04 (6.56E-04)

4.76E-04 (3.98E-04)

(Business environment)

[1.66E-05, 1.96E-03]

[3.05E-05, 1.39E-03]

[2.47E-05, 2.06E-03]

[3.71E-05, 4.66E-03]

[1.66E-05, 4.66E-03]

Entertainment-related

count per county population

4.06E-04 (2.40E-04)

4.43E-04 (2.26E-04)

3.99E-04 (2.98E-04)

5.24E-04 (6.01E-04)

4.28E-04 (3.51E-04)

(Business environment)

[3.80E-05, 2.51E-03]

[6.72E-05, 1.63E-03]

[2.82E-05, 2.97E-03]

[5.15E-05, 6.80E-03]

[2.82E-05, 6.80E-03]

Education-related

count per county population

5.80E-04 (3.19E-04)

6.09E-04 (3.98E-04)

6.11E-04 (4.37E-04)

6.06E-04 (4.50E-04)

5.99E-04 (3.97E-04)

(Business environment)

[7.30E-05, 3.25E-03]

[1.01E-04, 3.33E-03]

[4.73E-05, 3.92E-03]

[6.10E-05, 3.26E-03]

[4.73E-05, 3.92E-03]

Negative food related

count per county population

7.67E-04 (2.15E-04)

8.67E-04 (2.12E-04)

8.85E-04 (2.89E-04)

8.27E-04 (5.03E-04)

8.30E-04 (3.20E-04)

(Business environment)

[9.44E-05, 2.26E-03]

[2.01E-04, 1.82E-03]

[1.35E-04, 2.82E-03]

[6.18E-05, 5.38E-03]

[6.18E-05, 5.38E-03]

Positive food related

count per county population

1.70E-03 (5.98E-04)

1.84E-03 (4.70E-04)

1.85E-03 (6.51E-04)

1.98E-03 (1.11E-03)

1.82E-03 (7.50E-04)

(Business environment)

[3.88E-04, 1.04E-02]

[6.28E-04, 4.63E-03]

[3.82E-04, 7.87E-03]

[1.92E-04, 1.49E-02]

[1.92E-04, 1.49E-02]

Health care related

count per county population

2.69E-03 (1.39E-03)

2.96E-03 (8.53E-04)

2.56E-03 (9.80E-04)

2.15E-03 (1.03E-03)

2.56E-03 (1.16E-03)

(Business environment)

[1.94E-04, 2.47E-02]

[7.79E-04, 8.89E-03]

[1.42E-04, 1.13E-02]

[1.42E-04, 7.66E-03]

[1.42E-04, 2.47E-02]

Recreation related

count per county population

2.49E-04 (1.24E-04)

3.11E-04 (1.47E-04)

3.32E-04 (2.41E-04)

5.13E-04 (6.47E-04)

3.30E-04 (3.29E-04)

(Business environment)

[3.38E-05, 1.16E-03]

[2.91E-05, 1.13E-03]

[3.03E-05, 2.00E-03]

[5.57E-05, 1.08E-02]

[2.91E-05, 1.08E-02]

Social service related

count per county population

8.64E-05 (5.72E-05)

9.18E-05 (5.12E-05)

1.17E-04 (8.79E-05)

2.03E-04 (1.54E-04)

1.10E-04 (9.03E-05)

(Business environment)

[9.77E-06, 7.06E-04]

[6.79E-06, 2.76E-04]

[1.44E-05, 8.37E-04]

[2.97E-05, 1.06E-03]

[6.79E-06, 1.06E-03]

Total subsidized units

count per county population

1.11E-02 (2.91E-02)

1.27E-02 (1.82E-02)

0.010 (0.019)

0.009 (0.042)

1.03E-02 (2.86E-02)

(Subsidized housing environment)

 

[0, 6.46E-01]

[0, 1.77E-01]

[0, 0.416]

[0, 0.834]

[0, 8.34E-01]

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