Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research

Table 8 Overall and RUCC-stratified loadings for select variables in the land domain

Constructs indented	Metropolitan - urbanized	Non-metro urbanized	Less-urbanized	Thinly populated	Overall
	(RUCC1 = 1089)	(RUCC2 = 323)	(RUCC 3 = 1059)	(RUCC4 = 670)	(n = 3141)
Land Domain
Agriculture
Harvested acreage	0.1572	0.1395	0.1398	0.1373	0.1400
Animal units	−0.0358	−0.0133	0.0019	0.0202	−0.0034
Pesticides
Herbicides	0.1701	0.1393	0.1350	0.1762	0.1524
Insecticides	0.1407	0.1049	0.0874	0.1047	0.1072
Contaminants
Arsenic	0.2617	0.2774	0.2722	0.2626	0.2685
Lead	0.1731	0.2300	0.2395	0.2386	0.2228
Titanium	0.1012	0.1965	0.1701	0.2020	0.1682
Iron	0.3099	0.3218	0.3139	0.2948	0.3144
Phosphorus	0.1011	0.0858	0.1428	0.1775	0.1053
Facilities
Facilities	0.1169	0.1164	0.0604	0.0732	0.0779
Radon
Radon zone	−0.1703	−0.1877	−0.1909	−0.1606	−0.1753

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