Table 4.

Final Weights For Child and Adolescent Thriving Index 1.0

Variable	Index Weight
Economic
Food Secure	0.199
Education
Attended Preschool	0.025
Graduated High School on Time	0.285
Math Proficiency	0.052
Reading Proficiency	0.054
Health
Non-Low Birthweight	0.052
Non-Obese	0.020
Not in Fair/Poor General Health	0.027
Health Behaviors
Didn’t Smoke Regularly in Adolescence	0.192
Didn’t Try Marijuana in Adolescence	0.069
Family, Peers, Community
Never Arrested	0.027

Index weights are constructed by the following procedure: 1) multiply the absolute value of the product of the regression estimates for each subjective outcome presented in Table 3 with its respective PCA coefficient from Component 1 in Table 2; 2) averaging across the 5 outcomes; and 3) standardizing such that the column sums to 1. Results for the index using individual and contextual components can be found in Appendix Table 12.