Metropolitan-level ethnic residential segregation, racial identity, and body mass index among U.S. Hispanic adults: a multilevel cross-sectional study

Table 3 Percentage of all Hispanic participants living in low Hispanic segregation areas ^a by level of non-Hispanic residential segregation and race, 2003-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

	Hispanic blacks (n = 319)	Hispanics who identified as some other race (n = 1,469)	Hispanic whites (n = 2,702)
Quartile of non-hispanic black isolation index score
NBI 1 (low)	9.1	43.5	41.0
NBI 2	2.5	5.0	5.6
NBI 3	24.8	21.0	21.4
NBI 4 (high)	63.6	30.5	32.0
Quartile of non-hispanic white isolation index score
NWI 1 (low)	39.2	34.0	15.8
NWI 2	21.3	13.4	14.6
NWI 3	19.4	20.9	19.3
NWI 4 (high)	20.1	31.7	50.3

^aLow Hispanic segregation areas is defined as the lowest quartile of the Hispanic isolation index.
Abbreviation: NBI = Non-Hispanic Black isolation index score; NWI = Non-Hispanic White isolation index score.

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