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Table 2 Household Socioeconomic and food environment characteristics by food shopping trip patterns clusters

From: Beyond the supermarket: analyzing household shopping trip patterns that include food at home and away from home retailers

Mean

(LSE)

Total Population

Superstore (SS)

Supermarket

(SM)

Mix

Weighted t-tests

SS vs

SM

SS + SM

vs Mix

Household Characteristics

 Size

2.45 (0.05)

2.30 (0.09)

2.11 (0.07)

2.60 (0.06)

 

***

 Presence of Child (%)

33.20 (1.37)

28.08 (2.44)

21.64 (1.81)

38.04 (1.94)

*

***

 Monthly Income

5194.19 (206.38)

4238.03 (287.38)

4524.11 (252.49)

5645.63 (260.25)

 

***

 SNAP Participant (%)

13.19 (0.88)

19.34 (1.64)

16.09 (1.90)

10.72 (1.00)

 

***

 Working

Adults (%)

58.68 (1.03)

52.00 (3.33)

46.61 (2.21)

64.07 (1.25)

 

***

 Vehicle Access (%)

89.52 (1.20)

88.97 (2.34)

87.28 (1.78)

90.35 (1.26)

  

Healthy Food Attitudes

 Not enough time to prepare healthy meals (%)

20.23 (0.74)

15.94 (2.03)

12.83 (1.89)

23.57 (1.12)

 

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 Healthy Food too Costly (%)

32.43 (1.44)

34.07 (3.38)

31.15 (2.88)

32.39 (1.96)

  

 Healthy Food Does Not Taste Good (%)

21.70 (1.02)

19.41 (2.29)

13.59 (1.34)

24.74 (1.39)

*

***

Food Environment

 Superstore Availability

2.04 (0.29)

1.99 (0.23)

1.76 (0.35)

2.14 (0.36)

  

 Supermarket Availability

2.60 (0.50)

1.70 (0.28)

2.84 (0.43)

2.77 (0.63)

**

 

 Fast Food Restaurant Availability

12.52 (1.56)

9.91 (1.40)

12.47 (2.30)

13.22 (1.77)

  

 Non-Fast Food Restaurant Availability

55.33 (7.74)

41.33 (6.94)

56.46 (10.24)

58.62 (8.71)

  

Regional Indicator

 Rural (%)

34.34 (3.67)

39.05 (4.52)

28.42 (4.80)

34.91 (4.15)

  

 Northeast (%)

15.61 (2.47)

8.93 (2.87)

16.20 (3.47)

17.17 (2.63)

 

**

 Midwest (%)

31.15 (3.52)

46.19 (8.06)

15.71 (5.11)

31.91 (3.59)

*

 

 South (%)

35.22 (3.99)

31.78 (6.53)

43.35 (6.49)

33.66 (4.09)

  

 West (%)

18.01 (2.71)

13.09 (3.31)

24.74 (5.08)

17.26 (2.54)

*

 
  1. Means of all variables are reported. The means of binary variables are reported as percentages (%). Household income is measured as the monthly income in U.S. dollars. Working adults measured the percentages of all adults in the household that are currently working. Vehicle access indicates that a household owns or leases a vehicle. FoodAPS used the definition of rural from the ERS Food Access Research Atlas, which is based on census tract population. Thus, the binary variable for living in a rural area indicates if a household lived in a census tract that had a population of fewer than 2500 people. Food environment variables measure the count of a specific retailer type within 1-mile radius of households in urban areas, and 10-mile radius of households in rural areas
  2. Mix Cluster in which no single retailer type dominated shopping trip patterns
  3. SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
  4. LSE linearized standard errors
  5. * = p < 0.05 ** = p < 0.01 *** = p < 0.001