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Table 10 Overall and RUCC-stratified loadings for select variables in the built environment domain

From: Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research

Constructs indented

Metropolitan - urbanized

Non-metro urbanized

Less-urbanized

Thinly populated

Overall

 

(RUCC1 = 1089)

(RUCC2 = 323)

(RUCC 3 = 1059)

(RUCC4 = 670)

(n = 3141)

Built environment domain

     

  Roads

     

Highway proportion

0.1249

−0.0209

0.1275

−0.0106

0.1320

Primary streets proportion

0.0857

−0.0744

−0.1143

−0.1103

0.0578

  Highway/road safety

     

Log traffic fatalities

−0.1507

−0.1938

0.0097

0.0272

0.0018

  Public transit behavior

     

Proportion using public transport

0.2794

0.0635

−0.0212

0.074

0.2058

  Business environment

     

Log vice-related environment

0.2547

0.2157

0.321

0.3536

0.2687

Log entertainment environment

0.3470

0.4422

0.3822

0.3721

0.3585

Log education environment

0.2405

0.2355

0.2866

0.3713

0.3242

Log negative food environment

0.2147

0.2372

0.2536

0.2514

0.2162

Log positive food environment

0.3666

0.4004

0.4241

0.3127

0.2995

Log health care environment

0.4245

0.4497

0.4653

0.4055

0.4241

Log recreation environment

0.2120

0.3901

0.3309

0.3434

0.2888

Log transportation environment

0.2998

0.1979

0.1985

0.2752

0.3207

Log civic environment

0.2865

0.2114

0.1692

0.2209

0.2912

  Subsidized housing environment

     

Log total subsidized units

−0.2448

0.0518

0.1440

0.2024

0.2566

  1. Complete list of variable loadings is available in Additional file 3.