Table 8 Eigenvectors of the first three Principal Component Analysis classifying the mescal handlers’ strategies of management in the communities studied
Factor | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
|---|---|---|---|
Age | −0.068282 | −0.116065 | −0.165699 |
Education | −0.224774 | 0.2203967 | 0.0037511 |
Migration | 0.4067214 | 0.6465633 | 0.3079537 |
Uses | 0.1999348 | 0.2767164 | −0.435015 |
Transmission of experience | 0.1841198 | 0.4162504 | 0.7246147 |
Productivity | −0.723315 | −0.156627 | 0.2888761 |
Perception of risk | −0.122723 | 0.7397652 | 0.2680137 |
Partnership | −0.527898 | 0.3742939 | −0.45823 |
Labour hand | 0.8964532 | 0.0597666 | −0.119926 |
Harmful practices | 0.6838442 | −0.400892 | 0.4411164 |
Mescal demand | 0.8270976 | 0.2097866 | −0.312528 |
Price of mescal | 0.5993685 | 0.6988236 | −0.066022 |
Extraction rate of agaves | 0.6542544 | 0.0829236 | −0.431739 |
Extraction/management tools | 0.9188682 | −0.226786 | 0.0378166 |
Weight sum/number of practices | 0.842084 | −0.093713 | 0.123967 |
Inputs | 0.8258588 | −0.383827 | 0.0787319 |