FACTOR ANALYSIS

1)
KMO and Bartlett's Test
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.
Bartlett's Test of Sphericity
Approx. Chi-Square
df
Sig.

.670
278.160
21
.000

The value of KMO is greater than 0.6 which is acceptable and appropriate to proceed to other steps.

2) There are two factors that should be retained.

Communalities
Initial
Extraction
Q2
1.000
.496
Q3
1.000
.614
Q4
1.000
.597
Q5
1.000
.681
Q13
1.000
.716
Q14
1.000
.528
Q15
1.000
.704
Extraction Method: Principal
Component Analysis.

3) (i) Component 1 & 2 should be retained, as they have Eigenvalues greater than 1.

Component
1
2
3

Total
2.357
1.981
.832

.629

8.990

82.835

.475

6.779

89.615

.390

5.574

95.188

.337

4.812

100.000

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

3) (ii) Total variance explained is showing the

components which we retain.
Component Matrixa

Total Variance Explained

Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings
Total
% of Variance
Cumulative %
2.357
33.668
33.668
1.981
28.297
61.966

Initial Eigenvalues
% of Variance
Cumulative %
33.668
33.668
28.297
61.966
11.880
73.845

Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings

Total
% of Variance
Cumulative %
2.357
33.668
33.668
1.981
28.298
61.966

Rotated Component Matrixa

Component
1
2
Q2

.688

Q3

.783

Q4

.764

Q5

.825

percentage which is above 60 (61.966) of the two

Q13

.844

Q14

.726

Q15

.839

Extraction Method: Principal

Component Analysis.
Rotation Method: Varimax with
Kaiser Normalization.
a. Rotation converged in 3
iterations.

Component
1

Q2

.690

Q3

.783

Q4

.762

Q5

.825

Q13

.845

Q14

.725

Q15

.839

Extraction Method: Principal

Component Analysis.
a. 2 components extracted.

Component Transformation Matrix

Component
1
2
1
1.000
.011
2
-.011
1.000
Extraction Method: Principal Component
Analysis.
Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser
Normalization.

3) (iii) Scree Plot proposes to stop analysis at the point before the point of inflection occurs. So we have to take the first two values.