Neighborhood disadvantage and the sales of unhealthy products: alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy snack food

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Relationship between Area Deprivation Index and Neighborhood Characteristics and the Number of Unhealthy Snack Food Units Sold on Average by Store per Week^a

Neighborhood Socio-Demographic Characteristics	Coefficient	P-value	95% Confidence Interval
ADI national percentile^b	42.57	< 0.001	26.67	58.45
Percent of population that is African-American	−5.52	0.19	−12.64	1.60
Percent population ages 0–17	62.73	0.02	23.28	102.18
Walk score^c	−7.35	0.22	−17.61	2.92
Conditional R-squared = 0.64

^a Neighborhood is defined as the US Census Block Group for household income, percent of African-American households; US Census Tract for percent of households with no vehicle access and percent of households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal program that provides nutrition benefits to low income individuals and families (SNAP); and store address determined neighborhood Walk Score (www.walkscore.com)
^b ADI is the Area Deprivation Index measured as a percentile of Census Block Groups throughout the US, where the 99th percentile being the highest level of neighborhood disadvantage
^c Walk Score ranged from 0 to 100 with 100 being the most walkable
Note: analyses controlled for sales week (1–85) and population size; coefficients were not standardized

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