1991 US General Social Survey:

We required to perform data reduction therefore we apply factor analysis because

variable is greater than 10 and data respondents is greater than 50
In our data there are three types of variables available scale variables ordinal
variables and nominal variables I am going to apply factor analysis on each variable
types separately

Scale variable:
KMO and Bartlett's Test
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.
Approx. Chi-Square
Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

.702
668.852

df

Sig.

.000

The KMO test shows that there is 70% similarity among these
scale variables while the sig value of bartletts test is less than
0.05.
Thus factor analysis found fit for data reeducation on scale
variable
Communalities
Initial
Highest Year of School
Completed
Highest Year School
Completed, Father
Highest Year School
Completed, Mother
Highest Year School
Completed, Spouse

Extraction

1.000

.581

1.000

.616

1.000

.650

1.000

.582

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

This section of communalities shows that the expected and actual

participation of the variables in Factor analysis.

Variables with high participation will clearly join a group while low
participation variables are providing overlapping among the
groups.
Variables with approximately same participation like to join same
groups.
The maximum participation variables in each group are
considered the group leader and help to decide the name of the
group.

Total Variance Explained

Component

Initial Eigenvalues
Total

% of Variance

Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings

Cumulative %

2.429

60.730

60.730

.804

20.098

80.828

.421

10.531

91.359

.346

8.641

100.000

Total
2.429

% of Variance
60.730

Cumulative %
60.730

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

This section has three parts first part of the table shows the
variable participation its variance % and cumulative % of each
variable of the data
Second part of the variable shows that the cut of information for
the group until Eigen value remains>1
Third part of the table shows the factor status after adjustment of
remaining variable into two groups
61% of the Scale variables clearly joining the group.

Ordinal variables:
KMO and Bartlett's Test
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.
Approx. Chi-Square
Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

.617
1344.365

df

153

Sig.

.000

The KMO test shows that there is 61% similarity among these
scale variables while the sig value of bartletts test is less than
0.05.
Thus factor analysis found fit for data reeducation on Ordinal
variable

Communalities
Initial
Ill Enough to Go to a Doctor
Counselling for Mental
Problems
Infertility, Unable to Have a
Baby
Drinking Problem
Illegal Drugs (Marijuana,
Cocaine)
Partner (Husband, Wife) In
Hospital
Child in Hospital
Child on Drugs, Drinking
Problem

Extraction

1.000

.383

1.000

.582

1.000

.592

1.000

.505

1.000

.670

1.000

.653

1.000

.629

1.000

.491

Death of a Close Friend

Unemployed and Looking for
Work a Month +
Being Demoted or Move to
Worse Position
Cut in Pay or Reduced
Hours
Being Passed Over for
Promotion
Having Trouble with One's
Boss
Own Business Losing
Money or Failing
Partner (Husband, Wife)
Being Fired
Partner (Husband, Wife) Cut
in Pay
One's Spouse Being
Unemployed

1.000

.428

1.000

.398

1.000

.556

1.000

.449

1.000

.486

1.000

.435

1.000

.525

1.000

.725

1.000

.448

1.000

.712

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

This section of communalities shows that the expected and actual

participation of the variables in Factor analysis.
Variables with high participation will clearly join a group while low
participation variables are providing overlapping among the
groups.
Variables with approximately same participation like to join same
groups.
The maximum participation variables in each group are
considered the group leader and help to decide the name of the
group.
Total Variance Explained
Component

Initial Eigenvalues

Extraction Sums of Squared

Rotation Sums of Squared

Loadings

Loadings

Total

% of

Cumulative

Variance

Total

% of

Cumulative

Variance

Total

% of

Cumulative

Variance

2.180

12.113

12.113 2.180

12.113

12.113 1.968

10.934

10.934

1.767

9.819

21.932 1.767

9.819

21.932 1.849

10.274

21.208

1.349

7.496

29.428 1.349

7.496

29.428 1.308

7.268

28.476

1.248

6.934

36.362 1.248

6.934

36.362 1.225

6.805

35.282

1.079

5.993

42.355 1.079

5.993

42.355 1.146

6.365

41.647

1.039

5.775

48.130 1.039

5.775

48.130 1.111

6.170

47.817

1.003

5.572

53.702 1.003

5.572

53.702 1.059

5.885

53.702

.986

5.475

59.177

.959

5.326

64.503

10

.927

5.151

69.654

11

.857

4.763

74.417

12

.840

4.666

79.083

13

.788

4.376

83.459

14

.696

3.864

87.324

15

.687

3.818

91.142

16

.664

3.691

94.833

17

.548

3.045

97.878

18

.382

2.122

100.000

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

This section has three parts first part of the table shows the
variable participation its variance % and cumulative % of each
variable of the data
Second part of the variable shows that the cut of information for
the group until Eigen value remains>1
Third part of the table shows the factor status after adjustment of
remaining variable into two groups
54% of the Scale variables clearly joining the group.
Rotated Component Matrixa
Component
1
Ill Enough to Go to a Doctor

2
.084

3
.109

4
.074

5
.150

6
.567

7
.105

-.063

Counselling for Mental

Problems
Infertility, Unable to Have a
Baby

.109

.065

.043

-.059

Drinking Problem

.424

-.055

Illegal Drugs (Marijuana,

Cocaine)

.362

.034

-.188

-.468

.750

-.109

.104

.647

.228

.075

-.158

.743

-.239

-.033

.222

.098

.806

-.036

Partner (Husband, Wife) In

Hospital
Child in Hospital
Child on Drugs, Drinking

Unemployed and Looking for

Work a Month +
Being Demoted or Move to
Worse Position
Cut in Pay or Reduced
Hours
Being Passed Over for
Promotion
Having Trouble with One's
Boss
Own Business Losing Money
or Failing

-.066

.069

.679

.126

-.092

.059

.057

.076

.340

.105

.536

.280

-.144

.035

-.054

.031

.073

.072

.040

.736

-.050

.584

.039

.043

.549

.058

-.067

-.188

.623

.059

-.059

.191

.258

.090

.085

.117

-.150

-.220

.032

-.036

.039

.849

Being Fired
in Pay

.491

.541

Partner (Husband, Wife)

Partner (Husband, Wife) Cut

-.035

-.034

Problem
Death of a Close Friend

.618

.101

One's Spouse Being

Unemployed

.633

-.167

.826

.155

-.080

.311

.275

.082
-.057

-.061

.046

Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.

a. Rotation converged in 9 iterations.

Rotated Component matrix transformed

Partne
r&
Spous

Healt
h
Issue

.599

.091

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

Job
Relate
d

-.244

Component
Childre Docto
n Issue
r
Visits

Partner
In
Hospit

Sadnes
s

al

Ill Enough to Go to a Doctor

.567

Counselling for Mental Problems

.424

Infertility, Unable to Have a Baby

.750

Drinking Problem

.647

Illegal Drugs (Marijuana, Cocaine)

.743

Partner (Husband, Wife) In Hospital

.806

Child in Hospital

.618

Child on Drugs, Drinking Problem

.679

Death of a Close Friend

.536

Unemployed and Looking for Work a

Month +
Being Demoted or Move to Worse Position

.541

Cut in Pay or Reduced Hours

.584

Being Passed Over for Promotion

.549

Having Trouble with One's Boss

.623

.736

Own Business Losing Money or Failing

.599

Partner (Husband, Wife) Being Fired

.849

Partner (Husband, Wife) Cut in Pay

.633

One's Spouse Being Unemployed

.826

Nominal variables:
KMO and Bartlett's Test
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.
Approx. Chi-Square
Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

df
Sig.

.403
1.505
6
.959

The KMO test shows that there is 40% similarity among these
scale variables while the sig value of bartletts test is greater than
0.05.

Thus factor analysis found unfit for data reeducation on Nominal

variable.

Part 2
Data Validity Tests
For data validation we perform:
Runs Test
Reliability

Runs Test
Runs Test
Education JobRelated Partner_Spouse HealthIssues ChildIssue DoctorVisits Sadness
Test Valuea

12.25

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

1.50

2.00

261

151

91

92

98

27

232

274

820

875

919

907

982

738

Total Cases

535

971

966

1011

1005

1009

970

Number of Runs

258

247

171

157

183

51

367

-.896

-1.106

.972

-2.145

.918

-1.558

1.146

.370

.269

.331

.032

.358

.119

.252

Cases < Test Value

Cases >= Test
Value

Z
Asymp. Sig. (2tailed)
a. Median

On performing runs test and after seeing of sig values which is > 0.05 of all groups we conclude
that group have randomness.

Part 3

Segmentation

Agglomeration Schedule
Stage

Cluster Combined
Cluster 1

Coefficients

Cluster 2

Stage Cluster First Appears

Cluster 1

Next Stage

Cluster 2

111

391

8.507

100

111

23.128

100

272

56.273

According to the dendogram the 3 Segments will be formed.