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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2013 Dec;35(12):1933–1940. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.09.019

Table 2.

Principal Components Analysis of socioeconomic controls

Variable PC1 PC2 PC3
% immigrant population .909 .032 .122
% poverty .763 .380 .136
% 5-year residential movement .787 .246 .214
Child to adult ratio −.705 .−.131 .420
% Latino/Hispanic .596 .384 .301
% vacant housing units .576 .202 −.030
% African American .087 .765 −.049
% single female headed households .492 .701 .192
% unemployment .425 .678 .146
% Asian .599 −.566 .056
% over 65 years of age .059 −.234 −.846
Male to female ratio .183 −.066 .742

Note: N=163. These 3 factors explained 68% of the variance in the set of variables.