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Table 8 Descriptive statistics for the Exposed and Non-exposed treatments

From: Food environment and childhood obesity: the effect of dollar stores

 

Exposed

Non exposed

 

Mean treated

Mean control

p-value

Mean treated

Mean control

p-value

Low income

0.370

0.271

<0.001

0.367

0.372

0.74

Female

0.528

0.481

<0.001

0.542

0.491

<0.001

Age (in months)

91.522

91.604

0.89

91.503

91.469

0.95

Urban

0.787

0.832

<0.001

0.723

0.503

<0.001

Black/African-American

0.252

0.190

<0.001

0.264

0.218

<0.001

Hispanic/Latino

0.059

0.056

0.68

0.077

0.089

0.18

Native

0.003

0.004

0.43

0.003

0.004

0.56

Spanish language

0.048

0.045

0.59

0.063

0.074

0.19

Free lunch

0.454

0.299

<0.001

0.495

0.433

<0.001

Reduced lunch

0.106

0.091

0.09

0.089

0.103

0.14

% no vehicle

0.071

0.054

<0.001

0.067

0.070

0.25

% public transport

0.006

0.004

0.01

0.007

0.005

<0.001

% high-school

0.338

0.320

<0.001

0.354

0.370

<0.001

% some college

0.274

0.276

0.46

0.271

0.270

0.65

% more than college

0.201

0.248

<0.001

0.178

0.157

<0.001

% Hispanic/Latino

0.059

0.047

<0.001

0.068

0.064

0.27

% Black/African-American

0.202

0.160

<0.001

0.180

0.175

0.53

% single-parent families

0.288

0.234

<0.001

0.276

0.270

0.40

% income below poverty

0.182

0.151

<0.001

0.183

0.186

0.50

Median income (in thousands of $)

40.839

48.642

<0.001

40.920

40.133

0.09

% working mother

0.272

0.225

<0.001

0.268

0.256

0.08

Median home value (in thousands of $)

104.57

127.67

<0.001

100.56

97.03

0.01

Median age of residential housing stock

1979.20

1981.10

<0.001

1978.80

1978.80

0.98

% vacant residential units

0.116

0.114

0.56

0.132

0.122

<0.001

  1. Notes: p-value is the p-value from a t-test of equality of means between treated and control