Entrepreneurial Environment and the Prevalence of Diabetes in U.S. Counities

Table 1

Descriptive statistics.

Variable	Mean	S.D.
Diabetes prevalence rate, 2007 (in percentage)	9.65	2.01
Number of businesses with 0–4 employees per 1,000 people	76.05	23.28
Percent of population uninsured	17.74	7.32
Income inequality (gini coefficient)	42.41	3.48
Per capita income (in thousand dollars)	17.45	3.88
Percent of population nonhispanic black	8.60	14.39
Percent of population hispanic	6.14	12.13
Number of physicians per 1,000 people	1.51	3.20
Population size, natural log	10.25	1.40
Percent of population age 65 and older (2000)	14.82	4.10
Age adjusted mortality rate, 1994–1998	922.61	128.14
County part of metropolitan area (1 = Yes, 0 = No)	0.34	0.48

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