Table 5 Average absolute SHAP values of individual socio-economic variables.

From: What dictates income in New York City? SHAP analysis of income estimation based on Socio-economic and Spatial Information Gaussian Processes (SSIG)

Socio-economic variable

Tract-level

ZIP-level

Per-capita income

Median household income

p-value

Per-capita income

Median household income

p-value

≥65

0.0556

0.0583

0.3638

0.0643

0.0728

0.4354

<18

0.0595

0.0406

0.0000

0.0472

0.0506

0.5869

Male

0.0196

0.0280

0.0000

0.0011

0.0392

0.0000

≥25UDG

0.1895

0.1636

0.0000

0.3484

0.3067

0.1455

≥25PGD

0.2619

0.2770

0.0975

0.4230

0.3494

0.0473

Un-employ

0.0209

0.0357

0.0000

0.0175

0.0013

0.0000

Pop-density

0.0445

0.0400

0.0015

0.0363

0.0858

0.0000

Black or African

0.0210

0.0535

0.0000

0.0011

0.0013

0.3682

Asian

0.0025

0.0332

0.0000

0.0232

0.0378

0.0000

White

0.0723

0.1265

0.0000

0.0183

0.0910

0.0000

  1. Note: This table presents the average absolute SHAP value of individual socio-economic variables for the SSIG model used in estimating per-capita income and median household income at the Tract and the ZIP-level in NYC. The variables in BOLD represents a key socio-economic variable in any of the four groups having a SHAP value >0.05.
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