Appendix Table 1:

Factor loadings of Area-Based SES Indicators

Neighborhood Characteristics	Factor Loadings
	Neighborhood Affluence	Race/Ethnicity Concentration	Residential Instability
% Black		−0.56
% Asian		0.56
% Latino		0.88
% Lived in different house in 1995 (some articles used this version as a measure of instability)			0.74
% Owner-occupied housing			−0.63
% High School degree	0.94
% Undergraduate degree (BA) or more	0.92
% Public Assistance	−0.83
% Female-headed household, no husband present w/own children under 18yrs of age	−0.70
% Management, professional and related occupations	0.89
% Foreign-born		0.86
% Annual income above $75,000 or more (this is the affluent measure)	0.88
% Recent immigrants			0.62
% Unemployed	−0.76
% Below poverty level	−0.84
Eigen Values	6.53	2.81	1.66
% of variation	43.54%	18.73%	11.05%
Cumulative percentage	43.54%	62.27%	73.32%