Inequalities in neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics: potential evidence-base for neighbourhood health planning

Table 3 Component loadings of socio-economic and demographic factors in the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (2004)

Variable	Principal component					Uniqueness
	1	2	3	4	5
Persons with <grade 9 education	0.575	0.176	0.659	-0.128	0.292	0.103
New immigrants	0.583	0.164	-0.337	0.539	0.243	0.171
Visible minority	0.643	0.419	-0.236	0.361	0.159	0.200
Aboriginal percentage	0.246	0.333	-0.165	-0.788	0.238	0.123
Median income	-0.790	-0.200	-0.125	0.378	-0.203	0.136
Government transfer income	0.847	-0.153	0.372	-0.053	0.017	0.118
Low income	0.941	0.110	0.018	-0.026	-0.144	0.081
Non-official language pop	0.675	0.255	0.197	0.342	0.424	0.143
Unemployment rate	0.721	0.103	0.165	0.036	0.064	0.437
Average dwelling value	-0.874	0.044	-0.103	0.042	0.203	0.181
Owner-occupied dwellings	-0.867	0.099	0.354	-0.096	0.000	0.104
Population under 20 years old	-0.324	0.867	0.089	0.045	-0.228	0.082
Population 65 years or older	0.139	-0.861	0.282	0.014	0.217	0.113
Single-parent families	0.759	0.252	0.160	-0.073	-0.437	0.138
Married percent	-0.875	0.148	0.190	0.172	0.251	0.084
Percent living alone	0.711	-0.552	-0.337	-0.075	-0.010	0.071
Percent of internal migrants	0.036	0.112	-0.790	-0.280	0.292	0.198
Population density	0.681	-0.113	-0.225	0.101	-0.325	0.357
Eigenvalue	8.30	2.42	1.92	1.47	1.06	-
Percentage of variation explained	46.10	13.42	10.69	8.14	5.88	-
Cumulative % of variation explained	46.10	59.52	70.35	78.35	84.23	-

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