Data

Descriptive Statistics

The descriptive statistics of the data is shown in the table below. The means for all the items lie above 3. The standard deviations range from 0.58 to 1.005 indicating a narrow spread around the mean.

Correlation

Correlation among various items was observed using the correlation matrix shown below. It was observed that there was a fairly high degree of correlation among the items, with many items having correlation coefficient greater than 0.3. This indicated that factor analysis could be applied on the data to reduce it into a few number of underlying factors that explain these items.