State licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries: neighborhood-level determinants of applicant quality in Missouri

Table 6 Logistic regression models for attracting an applicant from the top quartile of scores in each category

	(1) Dispensary Supplement (0,1)	(2) Business Plan (0,1)	(3) Security (0,1)	(4) Economic Impact (0,1)	(5) Character (0,1)	(6) License Approved (0,1)
*Independent variables*	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]	Odds Ratio [95% C.I.]
Population density (in thousands)	0.980 [0.905, 1.062]	1.140** [1.049, 1.238]	0.998 [0.920, 1.083]	1.027 [0.919, 1.149]	1.060 [0.980, 1.147]	0.969 [0.882, 1.064]
Age dependency ratio x 100	1.003 [0.994, 1.012]	1.000 [0.990, 1.009]	0.996 [0.987, 1.005]	1.000 [0.986, 1.014]	0.997 [0.988, 1.007]	1.009 [1.000, 1.019]
Socioeconomic vulnerability index	0.997 [0.991, 1.004]	1.001 [0.994, 1.007]	1.001 [0.995, 1.008]	1.004 [0.994, 1.013]	0.999 [0.992, 1.006]	1.002 [0.995, 1.029]
% Retail industry employment	0.992 [0.959, 1.026]	1.017 [0.985, 1.051]	1.016 [0.984, 1.049]	1.003 [0.961, 1.048]	0.999 [0.965, 1.034]	0.993 [0.959, 1.029]
Black or Hispanic majority (0,1)	1.079 [0.576, 2.020]	0.676 [0.351, 1.300]	0.585 [0.298, 1.146]	0.964 [0.392, 2.374]	0.955 [0.490, 1.862]	0.655 [0.307, 1.401]
No racial or ethnic majority (0, 1)	1.041 [0.434, 2.499]	1.374 [0.599, 3.152]	1.166 [0.514, 2.649]	0.956 [0.321, 2.846]	1.509 [0.650, 3.504]	1.289 [0.518, 3.208]
K-12 public school (0,1)	1.332 [0.222, 1.438]	1.385 [0.962, 1.992]	1.089 [0.763, 1.555]	1.036 [0.638, 1.681]	0.995 [0.689, 1.438]	1.039 [0.708, 1.524]
Wald χ²	5.05	17.15*	6.01	1.11	5.89	8.84
p-value (Prob. > χ²)	0.654	0.017	0.538	0.993	0.552	0.272
Sample size	606	606	606	606	606	606

Note Odds ratios and confidence intervals are reported for binary logistic regression models. Statistical significance is denoted by * and ** for significance at the 5% and 1% levels, respectively

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