. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 11.

Published in final edited form as: Open J Stat. 2016 Jun 14;6(3):436–442. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2016.63039

Table 1.

Variables selected to comprise deprivation index at three levels in four areas.

	County				Tract				Block Group
	I ^a	II ^b	III ^c	IV ^d	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III	IV
Education
% Population with less than high school	^*					^*				^*
Occupation
% Population with working class		^*			^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
% Civilian labor force unemployed		^*	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*
Housing Conditions
% HH ^e rent			^*	^*				^*
% vacant HH					^*				^*
% HH with >=1 person/room						^*		^*		^*		^*
% female headed HH with dependent children			^*	^*			^*	^*			^*	^*
% HH on public assistance		^*	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*
% HH with no car			^*	^*			^*	^*			^*	^*
% HH with no phone	^*				^*			^*	^*
% Occupied HH with incomplete plumbing
% HH with no kitchen
Income & Poverty
Income disparity	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
% HH with low income	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
% HH below federal poverty line	^*	^*		^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
% Population below federal poverty line	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
Racial Composition
% non-Hispanic African Americans			^*	^*			^*	^*			^*	^*
% Hispanic population						^*				^*
% foreign born						^*				^*
Residential Stability
% residents aged 65 or older
% persons with the same house >=5 years
% total variance explained	33.0	31.6	47.8	43.6	40.7	47.2	44.6	47.1	36.5	41.4	39.8	40.4
Cronbach’s Alpha	0.94	0.95	0.92	0.95	0.91	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.88	0.94	0.94	0.94

I: the nation;

II: California;

III: Georgia;

IV: Louisiana;

HH: household;

variables selected for constructing the composite index.