Race-specific geography of prostate cancer incidence

Table 2 Socioeconomic statistics of identified clusters.

Zone	% Black Residents*	% less than 12 years schooling^†	% below poverty^†	% renter occupied dwellings^‡	% unemployed^§
Whites with incidence greater than expectation
2	4.5	12.3	3.1	22.3	3.9
3	1.7	12.6	4.8	24.9	6.6
6	1.4	14.5	5.0	31.5	5.6
8	2.8	10.9	5.3	40.1	4.8
Whites with incidence less than expectation
1	1.6	19.8	6.8	31.6	6.2
4	5.8	21.6	5.9	35.4	5.5
5	4.4	24.5	10.1	63.5	7.0
7	2.2	33.4	10.2	54.2	10.2
African Americans adjusted for Whites with incidence greater than expectation
b	3.0	14.6/11.6	4.1/3.9	29.1/44.6	6.1/6.1
African Americans adjusted for Whites with incidence less than expectation
a	19.1	18.0/34.5	15.5/25.4	70.4/82.8	7.1/13.9

Socioeconomic characteristics of identified locales with significant variation of prostate cancer incidence by race, CT and MA, 1994–1998. 1990 Census data for is of White and African American residents; the second percentage in the African American zones are of African American residents alone.
*Denominator includes male White and African American residents from the 1990 census 20 years of age and older. ^†Persons 18 years and older. ^‡Occupied housing units. ^§Persons 16 years and older.