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. 2022 Dec 9;7(Suppl 5):2–23. doi: 10.25646/10641

Table 3.

Weighting of the indicators for the German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD)

Source: INKAR 2021, Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency, Own calculations

Dimension Variable Factor loading Share in the dimension Share GISD
Education 33.3% Employees with university degree -0.732 34.1 11.4
Employees without qualification 0.771 37.8 12.6
School leavers without qualification (adj.) 0.663 28.0 9.3
Employment 33.3% Employment rate -0.640 23.1 7.7
Unemployment rate 0.841 39.9 13.3
Gross earnings (log.) -0.810 37.0 12.3
Income 33.3% Income tax (log.) -0.914 40.7 13,6
Household income (log.) -0.921 41.3 13.8
Debtor quota 0.608 18.0 6.0

Description of the factor loadings on the first principle component for the subdimensions. Eigenvalues of the first components: ηEducation=1.6; ηEmployment=1.8; ηIncome=2.0. The eigenvalues of the second and third components are below 0.8 in each case. The correlations between the scores of the subdimensions for the year 2019: rEmployment|Income=0.66; rEmployment|Education=0.52; rIncome|Education=0.69. log. = logarithmised, adj. = adjusted