Economic benefits of livestock management in Ghana

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Rotated component matrix and component score coefficient matrix of factor analysis

Main purpose	Rotated component matrix			Component score coefficient matrix
Main purpose	Sociocultural products	Socioeconomic products	Physical products	Sociocultural products	Socioeconomic products	Physical products
Non-faith-based cultural rituals	0.832			0.437
Religious/faith-based rituals	0.790			0.459
Non-cash savings (against future expenses)		0.745			0.471
Insurance (urgent need of cash)		0.660			0.413
Food risk management (drought periods)		0.579			0.359
Gifts		0.562
Sales (regular income source)			0.723			0.545
Home consumption			0.641			0.347
Hide			0.606			0.380
Manure			0.504			−0.015

Extraction method: principal component analysis; rotation method: Varimax Kaiser normalization