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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Prof Geogr. 2008 Feb;60(1):54–69. doi: 10.1080/00330120701724087

Table 2. Factor structure of nonspatial factors.

Socioeconomic disadvantages Sociocultural barriers High health care needs
Female-headed households (%) 0.9089 −0.0058 0.0504
Population in poverty (%) 0.8662 0.1642 0.2405
Nonwhite population (%) 0.8481 0.2153 −0.0153
Households without vehicles (%) 0.8231 0.1905 0.2699
Homeownership (%) 0.6686 −0.3362 −0.3922
Housing units lacking basic amenities (%) 0.4278 0.2703 −0.0323
Households with linguistic isolation (%) −0.0479 0.9561 0.0164
Households with > 1 person per room (%) 0.4464 0.7966 −0.0631
Population without high school diploma (%) 0.5800 0.6406 0.1219
Population with high needs (%) 0.0316 −0.1050 0.9186
Median income ($) −0.5491 −0.2053 0.5605
% of variance explained by each factor 54.08 28.09 17.83

Values in italics indicate the highest loading of a variable on a factor among all factors.