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. 2011 Dec 20;6:3473–3485. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S26340

Table 1.

Variance described through factors calculated by principal component analysis

Component Total variance

% of variance % of cumulative variance
First 24.3 24.3
Second 23.4 47.7
Third 20.2 68.0
Component matrix

Predisposing factors Component

First Second Third

Age 0.550 −0.222 0.464
Gender 0.418 0.488 −0.627
Education −0.386 0.668 0.0015
Religion −0.028 0.613 0.634
Knowledge 0.767 0.251 0.039