Download or read book Mapping the Socio-economic Diversity of Rural Canada written by Alessandro Alasia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in turn has raised a number of questions The utility of factor analysis stems from a about the structure and characteristics of reduction of the complexity due to the variety of homogeneous regions and the way in which these measures and indicators that a researcher often should be identified. [...] This bulletin assesses the degree of spatial These dimensions provide a perspective on the diversity across rural and urban Canada in terms relative position of the CD with respect to the of a number of demographic, social and economic dimension identified. [...] The use and interpretation of the results of this study cannot be stretched beyond the scope of the research itself. [...] The results of the factor analysis, then, clearly depend on the nature of the variables used in the computation. [...] For analogous septile categories, the closer are the values of the two tables, the better the factor captures the variability of the indicator.