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Table 4 Description of neighbourhood characteristics of five contextual profiles

From: Developing a data-driven spatial approach to assessment of neighbourhood influences on the spatial distribution of myocardial infarction

 

Class A

Class B

Class C

Class D

Class E

Socio economic feature

Proportion of population covered by CAF

42.2%

44.7%

50.24%

51.40%

62.16%

Proportion of population covered by RMI

1.9%

1.5%

5.19%

4.64%

10.88%

Population density

71.13

180.24

556.10

706.04

470.48

Proportion of precarious jobs

8.62%

9.33%

13.32%

14.46%

16.58%

Proportion of stable jobs

76%

75%

68%

65%

59%

Unemployment rate

5.95%

6.61%

10.04%

11%

19.83%

Proportion of blue-collar workers

18.77%

18%

17%

16%

32%

Proportion of high school graduates

10.38%

10%

6.68%

9.70%

5.29%

Proportion of single-parent families

8.19%

9.11%

13.01%

13.5%

19.79%

Proportion of foreigners

4.03%

4.5%

8.79%

9.45%

17.60%

Proportion of people without cars

9.02%

10.5%

23.38%

30.6%

29.04%

Proportion of people with 2 cars

43.54%

38.41%

20.69%

17.05%

17.64%

Access to resources

Availability of green space

5.48

2.06

4.75

8.89

6.91

Distance to healthcare facilities (m)

−1385.55

478.25

263.71

214.88

399.00

Public transportation coverage

2.28

7.75

20.88

23.19

15.12

Distance to sports facilities (m)

996.96

522.37

353.44

339.95

349.59

Psychosocial environment

Quantity of civic associations

Very low

Low

high

Very high

Medium

Local school socio-educational classification

Very high

High

Low

Medium

Very low

Local retail store score

Very low

Low

High

Very high

Medium

Urban fabric (housing types)

Single-family homes

Mixed buildings

Mixed buildings

Center-city homes and Mixed

Multiple-dwelling unit buildings

  1. Very high: very good social support, high: good social support; low: low social support; very low: very low social support
  2. The first two axes of the MFA explained 29.14% of the variance. From the HAC analysis, 5 clusters or contextual profiles were determined from the coordinates of the cells for the first ten factorial axes of the MFA, so as to preserve all the variability of the initial information
  3. CAF fund for family allocations, RMI minimum insertion income