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Table 2 Polychoric correlations between gender index and its components

From: Measuring gender when you don’t have a gender measure: constructing a gender index using survey data

 

1

2

3

4

5

1. Gender Index

1.00

0.64

0.79

0.75

0.35

2. Responsibility for caring for children

0.72

1.00

0.21

0.35

-0.05

3. Occupation (based on 1997 LFS only)

0.79

0.27

1.00

0.20

-0.08

4. Hours of work

0.78

0.46

0.26

1.00

0.00

5. Education

0.43

0.03

-0.01

0.06

1.00

  1. Correlations below diagonal are for 1997 LFS. Correlations above diagonal are for 2014 LFS