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Having found some underlying dimensions in the data, in this chapter we examine the data in terms of these dimensions rather than in terms of the original set of variables. The demographic variables are excluded from this transformation because this set of variables cannot be reduced to a meaningful subset of underlying dimensions. The other variables are divided into four categories — economic, employment, quality of life and subjective variables — and have been aggregated separately by category (see Chapter 4 for the limitations of such an approach).
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© 1986 Efraim Gutkind
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Gutkind, E. (1986). Classification of the Variables. In: Patterns of Economic Behaviour Among the American Poor. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08206-3_9
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