Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research

Table 9 Overall and RUCC-stratified loadings for select variables in the sociodemographic domain

Constructs indented	Metropolitan - urbanized	Non-metro urbanized	Less-urbanized	Thinly populated	Overall
	(RUCC1 = 1089)	(RUCC2 = 323)	(RUCC 3 = 1059)	(RUCC4 = 670)	(n = 3141)
Sociodemographic domain
Socioeconomic
% renter occupied	0.2344	−0.1665	−0.0246	−0.1235	−0.0374
% vacant units	0.1757	−0.0586	−0.0209	0.0142	−0.1968
Median hh value	−0.1762	0.2484	0.2604	0.2160	0.2907
Median hh income	−0.4096	0.4190	0.4399	0.4545	0.4490
% persons < poverty	0.4535	−0.4568	−0.4728	−0.5169	−0.4557
% no English	0.1562	−0.2656	−0.1923	−0.1847	−0.1252
% earning > high school	−0.3328	0.3673	0.4345	0.4559	0.3925
% unemployed	0.3718	−0.4053	−0.3429	−0.3322	−0.3250
% work outside county	−0.1967	0.1228	−0.0892	−0.0663	0.0996
Median number rooms	−0.4091	0.3314	0.3077	0.2878	0.3501
% > housing 10 units	0.0205	0.1325	0.2289	0.0733	0.2017
Crime
Log violent crime	0.1728	−0.1039	−0.1251	−0.1385	−0.1325

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