Interpretability of Composite Indicators Based on Principal Components

Table 9

Mean of absolute loading difference.

Pillar	PCFA	Constrained PCFA
Panel A: Uganda data set
ABS	0.24	0.05
AST	0.01	0.01
SSN	0.18	0.03
AC	0.12	0.04
Panel B: Chad data set
ABS	1.04	0.14
AST	0.22	0.08
SSN	0.04	0.04
AC	0.67	0.07