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A Factor Analysis of Canadian Urban Family Expenditures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Richard D. Millican*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Notes and Memoranda
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1964

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References

1 Urban Family Expenditures, 1959. DBS, publication 62521, occasional, 03, 1963.Google Scholar

2 For a brief statement of this method see Ferber, Robert and Verdoorn, P. J., Research Methods in Economics and Business (New York, 1962), 101–7.Google Scholar

3 For a detailed explanation of factor analysis see Thurstone, L. L., Multiple Factor Analysis (Chicago, 1947).Google Scholar

4 For the details of this program, see Kaiser, Henry F., “Computer Program for Varimax Rotation in Factor Analysis, Educational and Psychological Measurement, XIX, no. 3, 1959.Google Scholar

5 For a discussion of income hypotheses and the relation of other variables to consumption see Ferber, Robert, “Research on Household Behavior,” American Economic Review, LII, no. 1, 03, 1962, 2036.Google Scholar