Where there's smoke: Cigarette use, social acceptability, and spatial approaches to multilevel modeling

Heather A. O'Connell

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 140, issue C, 18-26

Abstract: I contribute to understandings of how context is related to individual outcomes by assessing the added value of combining multilevel and spatial modeling techniques. This methodological approach leads to substantive contributions to the smoking literature, including improved clarity on the central contextual factors and the examination of one manifestation of the social acceptability hypothesis. For this analysis I use restricted-use natality data from the Vital Statistics, and county-level data from the 2005–9 ACS. Critically, the results suggest that spatial considerations are still relevant in a multilevel framework. In addition, I argue that spatial processes help explain the relationships linking racial/ethnic minority concentration to lower overall odds of smoking.

Keywords: Space; Place; Multilevel modeling; Spatial modeling; Health; Context; Racial/ethnic composition; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.06.025

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