. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 26.

Published in final edited form as: GeoJournal. 2007;69(1-2):9–22. doi: 10.1007/s10708-007-9098-4

Table 3.

Satellite-derived land cover classifications as predictors of the slum index and its components, Accra analytical regions

	Overall slum index	Proportion with no piped water	Proportion with no toilet and sewer	Proportion who do not own home	Proportion with less than durable roofing	Proportion with 2+ persons per room	SES-based slum index
Percent vegetation	−0.724 (−9.86)	−0.647 (−8.30)	−0.926 (−17.22)			−0.349 (−5.10)	−0.688 (−11.67)
Texture	−0.198 (−2.70)	−1.82 (−2.33)	−0.197 (−3.66)	−0.157 (−2.20)			0.132 (2.24)
Percent bare soil				−0.154 (−2.15)		−1.44 (−2.10)
Adjusted R²	0.38	0.30	0.67	0.04	0.00	0.16	0.61
R² spatial error model	0.42	0.37	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.25	0.68

Numbers in parentheses are T-scores