Indicators of regional opportunity structures | Factor loadings | Unique-ness | Average item-rest correlation | \(\alpha \) without item i |
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Youth ratio, 2000a | −0.856 | 0.267 | 0.813 | 0.929 |
Change in youth ratio between 2000 and 2010b | 0.826 | 0.318 | 0.777 | 0.931 |
Overall unemployment rate, 2013c | 0.738 | 0.456 | 0.671 | 0.936 |
Prop. of persons entitled to enroll at university on all upper secondary qualifications, 2013d | 0.762 | 0.419 | 0.707 | 0.935 |
Prop. of apprentices among all employees and apprentices, 2012e | −0.839 | 0.295 | 0.793 | 0.930 |
Total workplaces in the second sector, 2013f | 0.733 | 0.462 | 0.667 | 0.936 |
Total workplaces in the third sector, 2013g | 0.869 | 0.245 | 0.834 | 0.928 |
Prop. of workplaces in the second sector, 2013h | −0.673 | 0.547 | 0.605 | 0.939 |
Prop. of workplaces in the third sector, 2013i | 0.884 | 0.218 | 0.849 | 0.928 |
Prop. of new jobs created in new firms between 2001–2012 among all new jobs in new firmsj | 0.846 | 0.285 | 0.803 | 0.930 |
Eigenvalue | Â | Â | 6.488 | Â |
Proportion of variance accounted for by factor | Â | Â | 0.649 | Â |
Average interitem correlation | Â | Â | 0.605 | Â |
Number of items in the scale | Â | Â | 10 | Â |
Cronbach’s \(\alpha \) (standardized items) |  |  | 0.939 |  |