Socio-economic status, racial composition and the affordability of fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods of a large rural region in Texas

Table 2 Summary statistics of produce availability, store types and CBG characteristics

	n	Mean¹	Min	Max
Price indices, $
High variety fruit	21	27.58 ± 4.24	19.93	37.89
Basic fruit	22	17.22 ± 2.89	10.16	23.63
High variety vegetable	23	29.23 ± 6.70	17.19	48.19
Basic vegetable	23	27.97 ± 7.93	15.88	53.24
Store characteristics, %
Proportion grocery stores	23	56.5
Proportion grocery stores	23	34.8
Proportion convenience stores	23	8.7
CBG characteristics
Median family income, $	23	30,083 ± 7,29	14,400	50,547
Proportion Black, %	23	21.2 ± 16.1	29.7	74.5
Proportion Hispanic, %	23	16.5 ± 9.7	49.0	37.1

Notes: Price indices are the cost of purchasing the recommended weekly servings of fruits and vegetables according to the USDA Thrifty Food Plan for a representative household of 2 adults and 2 children from fresh, whole items: 24.5 pounds (11.1 kg) of fruit and 31.5 pounds (14.3 kg) of vegetables). Not all price indices can be calculated for all stores because of variation in which prices for individual goods are available. Store types and CBG characteristics calculated over the set of stores for which a basic fruit index or a basic vegetable index or both could be calculated. Means are reported ± SD.
¹ Conditional means (mean price over stores with non-missing price information) are reported ± SD.

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