The list included seven categories of outlet: public houses, off-sales (including super-markets), private members' clubs (e.g. social clubs, sports clubs, student unions, etc)., entertainment (e.g. bingo halls, casinos, concert halls, nightclubs, etc)., restaurants, refreshment (cafe style premises where alcohol may be served with food) and hotels.
Six categories of retail outlets were included: supermarkets, CTNs, grocery/convenience stores, petrol station/garage forecourt stores, off-licences (liquor stores) and fast food/take-away outlets.
If researchers are constrained to use one geographic scale with multiple categories of food outlets, using Census tract or 1 km buffer as the neighbourhood geographic unit is likely to allow researchers to detect most significant relationships.
The number of prices chosen to represent each type of city (or metropolitan area), type of outlet, and category of commodity would ideally be proportionate to its relative importance in the expenditures of the nation.
This paper first deals with the analysis of the fork muffler (which falls under the category of single-inlet multiple-outlet muffler) with and without H-connection using the transfer matrix approach, the results of which have been validated by a means of a 3-D finite element analysis.
The category of BMI-unhealthy food outlets included fast-food restaurants, a choice based on extensive evidence linking fast-food consumption with high energy intake, fat intake, BMI, and weight gain (Befort et al. 2006; Bowman and Vinyard 2004; Duerksen et al. 2007; Duffey et al. 2007; French et al. 2001; Jeffery et al. 2006; Jeffery and French 1998; Thompson et al. 2004).
For example, 'distance to alcohol outlet' does not capture the effects of outlet clustering and a high outlet density does not necessarily mean a decreased distance to outlets.
Measures were calculated separately for each type of outlet.
Outlet characteristics included type of outlet (pharmacy, drug store [DLDB or ADDO], general store), and urban or rural location.
Category of unanswerable questions.
