Table 2.

Reliability of Neighborhood Scales, by Residential Density and Respondent Gender

	Overall	Low-density blocks		Mid-density blocks		High-density blocks
		Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
Neighborhood problems
Cronbach’s α for scale	.822	.733	.730	.837	.855	.817	.824
N a	3,031	374	347	509	483	725	590
Neighborhood social cohesion
Cronbach’s α for scale	.681	.694	.695	.712	.665	.678	.661
N b	2,691	330	323	437	419	611	496
Neighborhood social ties
Cronbach’s α for scale	.756	.774	.745	.788	.729	.752	.736
N b	2,747	341	323	448	425	628	507
Perceived neighborhood danger
Cronbach’s α for scale	.812	.813	.836	.824	.798	.786	.814
N b	2,702	336	320	438	424	610	500

Note. ^aIncludes all age-eligible Wave 2 respondents who were interviewed in their homes.

^bIncludes all age-eligible Wave 2 respondents who were interviewed in their homes, returned the leave-behind questionnaire, and had valid data on all items in the scale.