Table 3.

Agreement (ρ) between individual SES indicators (indicated by column name) and neighborhood advantage for counties surveyed by SEPA-HHS and BLS-HHS. Bolded values are significant with p < 0.001.

County	Urbanicity (NCHS classa)	Rel. incomeb	Education
Philadelphia	Large metro (1)	0.472	0.385
Bucks	Suburban (2)	0.332	0.311
Chester	Suburban (2)	0.390	0.320
Delaware	Suburban (2)	0.447	0.354
Montgomery	Suburban (2)	0.356	0.283
Berks	Medium metro (3)	0.308	0.239
Lancaster	Medium metro (3)	0.156	0.045c
Schuylkill	Micropolitan (5)	0.256	0.154

^a2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties categories are: 1 - large central metro, 2 - large fringe metro, 3 - medium metro, 4 - small metro, 5 - micropolitan, and 6 - noncore;

^bRel. income (relative income) refers to the factor by which reported household income is above or below the federal poverty line determined for that household;

^cNot significant at alpha = 0.05 level