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. 2019 Jul 17;19:152. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0796-7

Table 3.

Principal-component analysis: pattern matrix

Component
1 2 3
Unemployment 0.87 −0.19 0.01
Estimated prevalence of opiates and/or crack cocaine use 0.86 −0.04 − 0.08
Alcohol-related hospital admission 0.83 0.12 0.06
Children leaving care 0.82 − 0.09 − 0.03
Severe mental illness recorded prevalence 0.75 −0.37 − 0.03
Self-reported well-being - low happiness 0.71 0.11 0.21
Children in the youth justice system 0.69 0.07 −0.15
Adults in treatment at specialist alcohol misuse services 0.63 0.32 −0.06
inverse People living alone −0.48 −0.21 0.19
Self-reported well-being - high anxiety 0.48 −0.01 0.21
Domestic abuse incidents 0.46 0.07 −0.02
Emergency hospital admissions for intentional self-harm 0.25 0.76 0.03
Depression recorded prevalence 0.04 0.76 −0.03
Statutory homelessness 0.22 −0.76 −0.04
Marital breakup 0.20 0.61 0.10
Adult carers who have as much social contact as they would like (all ages) −0.07 0.56 0.04
Adult social-care users who have as much social contact as they would like 0.00 0.52 −0.11
Successful completion of drug treatment - non-opiate users 0.12 0.08 0.89
Successful completion of alcohol treatment −0.04 0.18 0.80
Successful completion of drug treatment - opiate users −0.09 −0.27 0.64

In an initial three-factor solution, social care mental health clients receiving services loaded on none of the components. Therefore this variable was removed from the final analysis

Figures in bold indicate main loadings