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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2014 Feb 22;46:59–71. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.02.007

Table 1. The Measurement Part of the Structural Equation Model Estimating the Effect of Socioeconomic Status in 1957 on Body Mass Index in 2004.

Indicators Factors
SES 1957 RBM 1957 SES 1993 SES 2004
Father's education .739 (.453)
Mother's education .623 (.611)
Family income .672 (.547)
Father's occupation .756 (.428)
Father's occupational education .835 (.302)
Father's occupational income .680 (.536)
Eigenvalue 2.939, χ2 (df) 136 (9), CFI .985, RMSEA .050
Coder 1 ranking .806 (.349)
Coder 2 ranking .777 (.396)
Coder 3 ranking .732 (.462)
Coder 4 ranking .813 (.337)
Coder 5 ranking .816 (.332)
Coder 6 ranking .653 (.573)
Eigenvalue 3.950, χ2 (df) 124 (9), CFI .96, RMSEA .047
Education .719 (.482) .602 (.637)
Occupation .866 (.249) .664 (.558)
Occupational education .862 (.256) .775 (.398)
Occupational income .792 (.371) .652 (.574)
Wealth .676 (.541) .723 (.476)
Eigenvalue 2.703, χ2 (df) 60 (5), CFI .992, RMSEA .044

Note: Each cell contains factor loadings and residual variances (in parentheses). All factor loadings are significant at the .001 level. RBM = relative body mass; SES = socioeconomic status; df = degrees of freedom; CFI = the comparative fit index; RMSEA = the root mean square error of approximation.