2.5. Neighborhood-level SES

Neighborhood SES is a contextual factor based on neighborhood household income averages and percentages reported in Taiwan's 2001 Census. In that census, neighborhood household income was measured by township using per capita income based on 2001 tax statistics released by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance.^[17] We categorized neighborhoods into advantaged or disadvantaged was based on the median values: advantaged neighborhoods had higher-than-median neighborhood household incomes and disadvantaged neighborhoods had lower-than-median household incomes.^[18]