Neighborhood Effects, Public Housing and Unemployment in France

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	Well-off	Mixed	Poor	Very poor	Total
Unemployment and tenure % unemployed workers	8.6	8.2	11.8	16.2	29.5	12.3
% public housing units Demography	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 % blue-collars	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