The Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to Explore Associations between Categories of Qualitative Variables in Healthy Ageing

Table 2

MCA dimensions discrimination measures.

	MCA dimension		Mean
	1	2
Gender	0.419	0.350	0.384
Age	0.150	0.332	0.241
School years	0.409	0.063	0.236
Stroke	0.005	0.073	0.039
Cardiac	0.006	0.139	0.073
Diabetes	0.022	0.083	0.053
Dyslipidemia	0.029	0.011	0.020
Hypertension	0.110	0.061	0.086
Smoking habits	0.333	0.272	0.302
Alcohol consumption	0.169	0.136	0.152
Physical activity	0.052	0.048	0.050
BMI	0.216	0.017	0.117
Metabolic risk	0.462	0.053	0.258
Cognitive dimension GENEXEC	0.352	0.125	0.239
Cognitive dimension MEM	0.122	0.221	0.171
Active total	2.857	1.984	2.421
% of variance	19.045	13.229	16.137