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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Polit Psychol. 2009 Oct 1;30(5):805–828. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00726.x

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Unstandardized Factor Loadings for Variables in the 1990 and 2000 Samples

Sample 1
Sample 2
Item M SD Loading M SD Loading
Aid to the homeless 0.21 0.29 -- -- -- --
Preferential hiring and promotion 0.79 0.33 -- 0.87 0.25 --
Food stamps 0.58 0.31 -- 0.62 0.33 --
Social security spending 0.22 0.28 -- 0.22 0.29 --
Compensatory affirmative action -- -- -- 0.56 0.44 --
Aid to the poor -- -- -- 0.34 0.34 --
Welfare -- -- -- 0.66 0.35 --

Liberal-conservative identification 0.53 0.21 1.00a 0.57 0.28 1.00a
Conservative - liberal thermometer 0.53 0.16 0.89 0.53 0.17 0.64

Political party identification 0.49 0.36 1.00a 0.51 0.35 1.00a
Republican - Democrat thermometer 0.53 0.16 0.55 0.50 0.20 0.59

Anti-egalitarianism 1 0.14 0.22 0.39 0.20 0.28 0.46
Anti-egalitarianism 2 0.53 0.34 1.00a 0.51 0.34 1.00a
Anti-egalitarianism 3 0.42 0.31 0.82 0.40 0.30 0.73
Anti-egalitarianism 4 0.34 0.30 0.64 0.39 0.32 0.76

Desired government size 1 0.35 0.47 1.00a 0.44 0.50 1.00a
Desired government size 2 0.27 0.44 0.59 0.48 0.50 0.76

SR 1 0.55 0.29 0.69 0.66 0.30 0.74
SR 2 0.69 0.29 0.95 0.75 0.28 0.87
SR 3 0.60 0.32 1.00a 0.60 0.32 1.00a
SR 4 0.45 0.33 0.73 0.59 0.34 0.95
a

Factor loading fixed at 1.0.