Validation of food store environment secondary data source and the role of neighborhood deprivation in Appalachia, Kentucky

Table 1 Descriptive of Census Tracts aggregated at County level in rural Appalachia Kentucky, 2011

Averaged Census Tracts	% of individuals with income below poverty level	% of families with female headed households with no husband and children under 18	% of households with income under $30,000/yr	% of households with public assistance income	% of people age 16 or older in civilian labor force unemployed	% pop in management	% of all persons age 25 or older with less than a HS degree	% of households with more than one person per room	Neighborhood deprivation score (average)	p-value difference between census tracts
Owsley	16.75	3.60	63.40	33.80	6.90	27.50	28.35	1.50	−1.39	0.110
Lee	34.88	6.10	59.40	36.80	17.60	24.10	39.00	0.00	1.98	0.02*
Clay	34.32	5.50	55.00	20.90	22.90	21.90	41.02	2.50	2.38	0.001*
Jackson	30.16	7.30	47.60	23.50	13.20	23.50	38.87	3.00	1.33	0.334
Bath	26.40	13.20	43.50	21.40	8.10	29.30	29.17	2.10	−0.24	0.703
Lincoln	18.70	6.80	34.60	15.50	7.27	22.90	31.25	1.30	−0.70	0.221
Estill	28.90	7.60	47.00	21.70	9.27	21.50	34.80	0.40	0.44	0.656
Pulaski	24.73	5.90	40.10	15.30	8.60	27.10	29.93	1.10	−0.27	0.445
Montgomery	20.90	7.10	37.90	16.90	4.70	25.10	26.40	1.40	−1.11	0.104
Rockcastle	31.80	4.60	49.10	26.30	10.60	27.00	34.40	0.80	0.55	0.638
Fleming	21.30	5.70	42.80	22.60	8.10	29.50	26.30	2.40	−0.56	0.506
Powell	25.50	9.40	42.30	24.10	9.00	24.90	26.60	1.60	−0.28	0.590
Breathitt	31.10	7.30	56.80	34.30	11.50	22.10	39.50	0.90	1.98	0.018*
Madison	19.60	6.80	31.90	11.90	7.70	30.80	17.40	0.90	−1.67	0.003*
Mean	26.07429	6.921429	46.52857	23.21429	10.38857	25.51429	31.64214	1.421429	0.17
Median	25.95	6.8	45.25	22.15	8.8	25	30.59	1.35	−0.26
Range	5.1-69.6	0-15.2	12.9-80.1	0-25.3	0-52.7	6.1-46.6	7.3-56.9	0-9.1	−4.07-4.34

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