The geographic distribution of breast cancer incidence in Massachusetts 1988 to 1997, adjusted for covariates

Table 1 SES Index. Rotated Component Matrix from the principal component analysis of socioeconomic status (SES) variables.

	Component
SES Variables	Wealth SES	Poverty SES
Percent Unemployed ^b	0.099	0.932
Median Income ^a	0.895	-0.294
Median Rent ^a	0.923	-0.037
Median House Value ^a	0.835	-0.264
Percent Working Class ^b	-0.405	0.671
Percent with a High School Diploma ^a	0.919	-0.081
Percent Below the Poverty Level ^b	-0.269	0.828

^aRepresented more in the first component. ^bRepresented more in the second component.

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