From: Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study
Block group characteristic | Median | Mean | SD | Range | King county medianb |
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Demographic variables | |||||
Population size (persons) | 1154 | 1,302 | 647 | 246-4721 | 1011 |
Non-Hispanic white race, % | 65.5 | 60.0 | 23.0 | 3.1-95.7 | 79.7 |
Non-Hispanic asian race, | 12.1 | 15.9 | 14.3 | 0-73.2 | 7.1 |
Non-Hispanic black race, % | 5.6 | 9.5 | 10.9 | 0-56.3 | 1.8 |
Hispanic ethnicity, % | 5.5 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 0-44.4 | 3.5 |
Foreign-born, %a | 19.3 | 21.5 | 13.0 | 0-62.4 | 11.7 |
Socioeconomic variables | |||||
Less than HS education, % | 9.8 | 12.8 | 11.0 | 0-57.2 | 6.9 |
Unemployment, % | 3.0 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 0-26.4 | 2.6 |
Median household income, $ | 48 021 | 51 043 | 21 297 | 8667-140 884 | 56 691 |
Poverty, % | 7.9 | 10.9 | 10.0 | 0-57.5 | 5.5 |
Working class, % | 57.8 | 56.4 | 14.1 | 21.7-85.4 | 51.1 |
Home ownership, % | 64.8 | 59.4 | 28.6 | 0-100 | 73.5 |
Tuberculosis measures | |||||
Tuberculosis mean cases per block group/yr | 0.22 | 0.27 | 0.20 | 0.11-1.0 | 0 |
Tuberculosis incidence rate per block group (per 100,000 person-years) | 12.0 | 15.6 | 13.4 | 3.5-135.5 | 0 |