Specification of Berg et al.'s ADI-3

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This is baseline information to guide the building in sociome of the three-factor Area Deprivation Index (ADI-3).

Factor analysis using principal axis factoring with geomin rotation revealed the following factors and their comprising 2013 - 2017 American Community Survey items from Singh's (2003) ADI:

Financial Strength

• median family income, $
• median mortgage, $
• median gross rent, $
• median house value, $
• employed people 16 years or older in white-collar occupations, %

Economic Hardship and Inequality

• families in poverty, %
• owner-occupied housing, %
• ratio of households making <$10k to >$50k
• people living below 150% FPL, %
• children under 18 years old in single-parent households, %
• households with no vehicle, %
• people in labor force 16 years or older unemployed, %

Educational Attainment

• people aged 25 years or older with at least high school diploma, %
• people aged 25 years or older with less than 9 years education, %
• households with more than 1 person per room, %

Note: In the ADI-3, factors are named according to their higher scores. As such, a higher score on Financial Strength indicates that a neighborhood has a high level of financial strength (i.e., has more dollar wealth). A higher score on Economic Hardship and Poverty indicates that a neighborhood has a high level of economic hardship and inequality (i.e., is more economically distressed). A higher score on Educational Attainment indicates that a neighborhood has a higher level of educational attainment (i.e., has more education).

• Because of this, for ease of interpretation, "% owner-occupied housing," "% people with less than 9 years education," and "% households with more than 1 person per room" should be reverse-coded.

Sociome will likely use a principal axis factoring approach with no rotation in order to create each ADI-3 factor. Users will still be able to utilize the global "legacy" ADI but will also be able to use all or any of the ADI-3's individual Financial Strength, Economic Hardship and Inequality, and Educational Attainment factors.

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