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Around 37 per cent of the overall variance
is explained by Factor 1 alone. This factor is
represented (as indicated by high individual factor
loadings) by nine variables: fertilizer consumption,
workers in secondary and tertiary sector,
employment in industrial establishments, number of
industrial establishments, electricity consumed
by industries, percentage urban, hospital beds,
radio in use, and piped drinking water supply.
Looking into the loadings of the variables,
Factor 1 is identified as "industrial development/
modernization".
Out of the 73 per cent of the overall
variance, 17 per cent of the variance is explained
by Factor 2.
The five variables of this factor
are: cultivated area, investment on farm mechanization
and irrigation, cooperatives, use of high
yielding varieties of seeds, and gross value of
agricul tural output. All these variables represent
the dimension of agricultural development.
Thus
Factor 2 represents "agricultural development".
It should be noted here that the loadings of these
variables are negative.
In other words, districts