Table 2 Spearman ranked correlations between potential spatial accessibility and neighborhood need

From: Association between neighborhood need and spatial access to food stores and fast food restaurants in neighborhoods of Colonias

	Proximity		Coverage
			One Mile		Three Mile		*Five Miles*
	Deprivation	Vehicle	Deprivation	Vehicle	Deprivation	Vehicle	Deprivation	Vehicle
Traditional FS
Supercenter	0.169*	0.105	0.019	0.125	-0.054	0.052	-0.173 ^†	-0.215 ^†
Supermarket	0.044	-0.134	0.044	0.144*	-0.028	0.108	-0.223 ^‡	-0.171 ^†
Supercenter/Supermarket	0.046	-0.223 ^‡	0.053	0.214 ^‡	-0.043	0.142	-0.278 ^‡	-0.228 ^‡
Grocery	0.253 ^‡	-0.080	0.208 ^‡	0.347 ^‡	-0.289 ^‡	-0.023	-0.442 ^‡	-0.058
Convenience	-0.245 ^‡	-0.271 ^‡	0.110	0.177 ^†	-0.099	-0.056	-0.297 ^‡	-0.297 ^‡
Non-Traditional FS
Dollar Store	0.105	-0.178 ^†	-0.052	0.073	-0.373 ^‡	-0.137	-0.409 ^‡	-0.263 ^‡
Mass Merchandiser	0.398 ^‡	0.166*	-0.201 ^†	-0.082	-0.444 ^‡	-0.126	-0.406 ^‡	-0.171*
Pharmacy	0.472 ^‡	0.159 ^†	-0.087	-0.001	-0.404 ^‡	-0.097	-0.468 ^‡	-0.171*
Fast Food Restaurants	-0.044	-0.237 ^‡	-0.083	0.203 ^†	-0.364 ^‡	-0.064	-0.404 ^‡	-0.255 ^‡

NOTE: Higher values (positive numbers) of proximity denote poorer accessibility; higher values (positive numbers) of coverage denote greater accessibility.
Bold values indicate statistical significance.
Deprivation, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation; Vehicle, % households without an available vehicle; FS, Food Store
*p < 0.05 for correlation between accessibility and need
^†p < 0.01 correlation between accessibility and need
^‡p < 0.001 correlation between accessibility and need

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