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Table A
Socio-economic characteristics

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Characteristic Area-based† Individual
Label Description Possible values Label Description Possible values
Income INCOME Average total personal income for persons aged 15 or older and reporting income Transformed and normalized.
Values = -3.57 to 15.68		 INCIND For unattached individual, total personal income; otherwise, family income adjusted for family size Normalized between -1 and +1‡
Values < -1 to -1
Values > 1 to 1
Education EDUC Percentage aged 15 or older without high school diploma Transformed and normalized.
Values = -3.58 to 3.67		 EDUCIND High school diploma Absence = 1
Presence = -1
Employment EMPL Ratio of employment to population aged 15 or older Transformed and normalized.
Values = -3.43 to 2.54		 EMPLIND Person is working Working = 1
Not working = -1
Separated/Divorced/ Widowed S_D_W Percentage aged 15 or older separated/divorced/ widowed Transformed and normalized. Values = -2.30 to 8.85 S_D_WIND Separated, divorced or widowed Separated/Divorced/ Widowed = 1
Other = -1
Unattached individuals UNATT Percentage aged 15 or older living alone Transformed and normalized. Values = -2.89 to 2.93 UNATTIND Living alone Living alone = 1
Not living alone = -1
Lone-parent families LONE Percentage of families that are lone-parent families Transformed and normalized. Values = -3.39 to 2.87 LONEIND Living in lone-parent family Lone-parent family =1
Other = -1
† income, education, employment, separated/divorced/widowed and unattached individual adjusted to account for age and sex distribution in each enumeration area
‡ if income follows normal distribution, nearly 70% of normalized income values will be between -1 and 1; since other individual indicators are dichotomous, normalized income values must be brought back between -1 and 1 to prevent this variable from assuming too much importance
Date Modified: 2015-07-17

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