A method for assessing links between objectively measured food store scores and store & neighborhood favorability

Table 2 Neighborhood characteristics of stores visited, reported favorability, store avoidance, and neighborhood avoidance

	Stores		Store favorability		Store avoidance		Neighborhood avoidance
	Rated	Not rated	High (≥ 70%)	Low (< 70%)	Low (< 10)	High (≥ 10)	None (0)	Some (1–3)	Many (≥ 4)
n	22	244	11	11	15	7	6	10	6
Lone parenthood (%)	0.30	0.31	0.28	0.33	0.28	0.36	0.21	0.29	0.41
Poverty (%)	0.35	0.35	0.31	0.38	0.32	0.40	0.25	0.36	0.42
Unemployment (%)	0.21	0.20	0.17	0.25	0.17	0.28	0.14	0.19	0.31
No high school Diploma (%)	0.29	0.25	0.25	0.33	0.27	0.34	0.18	0.33	0.33
Lone parenthood z-score	− 0.06	0.00	− 0.33	0.22	− 0.32	0.51	− 0.98	− 0.18	1.08
Poverty z-score	0.01	0.00	− 0.27	0.29	− 0.16	0.37	− 0.74	0.12	0.56
Unemployment z-score	0.04	− 0.01	− 0.36	0.43	− 0.33	0.83	− 0.72	− 0.19	1.16
No high school diploma z-score	0.28	− 0.03	0.00	0.56	0.10	0.66	− 0.54	0.58	0.60
Socioeconomic distress	0.27	− 0.04	− 0.97	1.50	− 0.71	2.37	− 2.97	0.33	3.40
Food stamp usage	0.38	0.37	0.35	0.40	0.35	0.43	0.27	0.40	0.44
African-American	0.46	0.41	0.31	0.62	0.33	0.75	0.28	0.34	0.85

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