Table 1 Descriptive Statistics of Quartile Breakdowns. For each characteristic (% poverty, % higher education, % Black/AA, % Hispanic/Latino) across 4844 tracts in NYS per the ACS 2014–2018 data, we split tracts by quartile and provide the number of census tracts included (“Count”) and the mean, standard deviation, and median population weighted mean shortest distance of these census tracts from pharmacies in kilometers (“Mean (km)”, “Standard Deviation (km)”, and “Median (km)”) by quartile
From: Disadvantaged groups have greater spatial access to pharmacies in New York state
Category | Count | Mean (km) | Standard Deviation (km) | Median (km) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
% Poverty | ||||
1st Quartile (lowest % poverty) | 1211 | 2.17 | 2.74 | 1.42 |
2nd Quartile | 1211 | 2.70 | 3.91 | 0.99 |
3rd Quartile | 1211 | 2.57 | 4.17 | 0.72 |
4th Quartile (highest % poverty) | 1211 | 0.84 | 1.59 | 0.49 |
% Higher Education | ||||
1st Quartile (lowest % higher education) | 1211 | 1.82 | 3.50 | 0.60 |
2nd Quartile | 1211 | 2.68 | 4.34 | 0.86 |
3rd Quartile | 1211 | 2.25 | 3.22 | 1.04 |
4th Quartile (highest % higher education) | 1211 | 1.51 | 1.63 | 0.95 |
% Black/African American (AA) | ||||
1st Quartile (lowest % Black/AA) | 1211 | 3.94 | 4.89 | 1.67 |
2nd Quartile | 1211 | 2.33 | 3.47 | 1.10 |
3rd Quartile | 1211 | 1.29 | 1.43 | 0.82 |
4th Quartile (highest % Black/AA) | 1211 | 0.71 | 0.91 | 0.53 |
% Hispanic/Latino | ||||
1st Quartile (lowest % Hispanic) | 1211 | 4.61 | 5.14 | 2.52 |
2nd Quartile | 1211 | 1.83 | 2.47 | 0.98 |
3rd Quartile | 1211 | 1.20 | 1.63 | 0.69 |
4th Quartile (highest % Hispanic) | 1211 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.46 |