Appendix: Building of the neighborhood typology
|
Factor 1 |
Factor 2 | |
|
Eigenvalue |
4.19 |
4.61 |
|
Percent of variance explained |
41.86% |
46.15% |
|
Loadings | ||
|
% families with foreign household head |
0.816 |
-0.399 |
|
% monoparental households |
0.793 |
-0.120 |
|
% pop. with at most lower secondary education |
0.510 |
-0.824 |
|
% pop. with high school final diploma |
-0.291 |
0.949 |
|
% pop. with a university degree |
-0.212 |
0.968 |
|
% executives |
-0.244 |
0.931 |
|
% blue-collars |
0.486 |
-0.820 |
|
% unemployed workers |
0.921 |
-0.308 |
|
% unemployed workers since more than one year |
0.908 |
-0.314 |
|
% unemployed workers aged under 25 |
0.730 |
-0.437 |
Only factors with eigenvalues superior or equal to 1 were retained.
Table A.1: List of variables used in the principal component analysis
and their contributions to factors
|
Very |
Well-off |
Mixed |
Poor |
Very |
Total | |
|
Unemployment and tenure |
8.6 |
8.2 |
11.8 |
16.2 |
29.5 |
12.3 |
|
% public housing units |
9.0 |
9.5 |
10.3 |
38.9 |
81.1 |
21.3 |
|
% foreign household heads |
5.5 |
5.9 |
8.5 |
17.4 |
34.3 |
10.9 |
|
% monoparental families Education levels |
11.7 |
9.7 |
14.3 |
16.6 |
24.6 |
13.6 |
|
% at most lower secondary edu. |
31.8 |
39.1 |
28.9 |
50.5 |
60.8 |
40.1 |
|
% university degrees |
34.6 |
20.6 |
42.2 |
13.6 |
7.7 |
24.6 |
|
Occupational status |
11.9 |
21.2 |
9.6 |
31.8 |
47.2 |
21.7 |
|
% executives |
25.3 |
14.0 |
31.4 |
8.0 |
2.6 |
17.1 |
Table A.2: Mean population characteristics of the five types of neighborhoods
defined by hierarchical ascending classification method
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