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. 2016 Aug 22;15(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s12942-016-0060-x

Table 3.

Moran’s I test of marginalization indicators

ID Indicator Moran’s I
Residential instability
 1 % of living alone (R1) 0.537***
 2 % of youth population aged 5–15 (R2) 0.467***
 3 Crowding: average number of persons per dwelling (R3) 0.588***
 4 % of multi-unit housing (R4) 0.371***
 5 % of the population that is married/common-law (R5) 0.497***
 6 % of dwellings that are owned (R6) 0.396***
 7 % of residential mobility (same house as 5 years ago) (R7) 0.221***
Material deprivation
 8 % 25+ without certificate, diploma, or degree (M1) 0.488***
 9 % of lone-parent families (M2) 0.11***
 10 % of government transfer payment (M3) 0.384***
 11 % of unemployment 15+ (M4) 0.066**
 12 % of below low income cut-off (M5) 0.157***
 13 % of homes needing major repair (M6) 0.362***
Dependency
 14 % of seniors (65+) (D1) 0.278***
 15 Dependency ratio [(0–14) + (65+)]/(15–64) (D2) 0.038*
 16 Labor force participation rate (aged 15+) (D3) 0.233***
Ethnic concentration
 17 % of 5-year recent immigrants (E1) 0.099***
 18 % of visible minority (E2) 0.325***

p value: **** <0.001; ** <0.01; * <0.05

The smaller the p value, the less likely that the correlation occurs by chance