3.3. Data analysis
We used a three-staged analysis to test our hypothesis. In first
stage we analyzed the farm scale variable for correlations with
other variables to examine each potential relationship to the farm
scale variable. In the second stage, we conducted three exploratory
Factor Analyses (eFA) to reduce the number of discrete and similar
variables to factors for use in an ANOVA. In the third stage, Analysis
of Variance (ANOVA) was conducted to examine the variance in
factor scores among the farm scale categories. Each stage incorporates
insights from the 51 expert and grower interviews to
assist in interpretation of the findings.