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. 2017 Mar 11;17:40. doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0309-5

Table 3.

Number of samples in which one, two, and three factors were extracted for the skewed distributions (simple random sampling) and approximately symmetric distributions (stratified random sampling) for each country

Skewed Distributions Approximately Symmetric Distributions
Number of Factors 1 2 3 1 2 3
China 993 7 0 0 1000 0
India 62 938 0 0 932 18
Mexico 894 106 0 0 1000 0
Russian Federation 6 994 0 0 1000 0
South Africa 1000 0 0 0 396 604
Ghana 587 413 0 0 0 1000

Note. n = 1000 samples of 750 adults per country per sampling approach