Another option (called naïve by some) could be to create indexes out of each cluster of variables. For
example, ‘owner’ and ‘competition’ define one factor. You could aggregate these two to create a new
variable to measure ‘market oriented attitudes’. On the other hand you could aggregate ‘ideol’, ‘equality’
and ‘respon’ to create an index to measure ‘egalitarian attitudes’. Since all variables are in the same
valence (liberal for small values, capitalist for larger values), we can create the two new variables as