Time for tolerance: exploring the influence of learning institutions on the recognition of political rights among immigrants

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 4 Political tolerance – principal component analysis

Items (groups that should/should not be allowed to hold public meetings)	Loadings (component 1)
Homosexuals	0.75
People of a different race	0.68
People with AIDS	0.77
Drug addicts	0.65

Entries reproduce the component matrix from a principal component analysis. Applying the Kaiser criterion, only one component was extracted (with Eigenvalue = 2.03), explaining 51% of the variance in the variables included