Built and socioeconomic environments: patterning and associations with physical activity in U.S. adolescents

Table 4 Socioeconomic (SES) environment factor loadings resulting from exploratory factor analysis¹

	2 factor solution		Alternative: 1 factor solution
	Advantageous economic environment	Disadvantageous social environment ²	Advantageous socioeconomic environment
Median household income	0.86 ³	--	0.85
% ≥ college education	0.84	--	0.62
% below poverty	-0.58	0.46	-0.87
% minority	--	0.61	-0.48
Crime rate	--	0.62 ³	-0.30
% homeowners	--	-0.56	0.57

¹ National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave I (1995-96), n = 18,294. Obtained from exploratory factor analysis using a principal factors estimator and oblique oblimin (gamma = 0) rotation. Unweighted correlations between Advantageous economic environment and Disadvantageous social environment factors was -0.49
² Marginally met inclusion criteria (Eigenvalue = 0.83)
³ Indicator variable(s) used to represent corresponding factor in Tables 8 & 9.
--For clarity, loadings with absolute value <0.2 were omitted

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