Table 5

Factor loadings of socioeconomic description. The original variables relevant for the interpretation of components (higher loadings) are in bold. DEM1 explains the major part of variability and is easily interpreted as a “female emancipation” index linked to the economic development of European nations

	DEM1	DEM2	DEM3	DEM4
Population density	0.046	0.046	0.912	−0.051
Migration rate	0.211	−0.456	0.060	0.546
Birth rate	0.229	0.907	0.141	−0.109
Fertlity rate	−0.006	0.815	−0.021	−0.333
Mother mean age at birth	0.858	0.304	0.188	0.127
Male mean age	0.796	0.391	0.257	0.217
Female mean age	0.888	0.182	0.194	0.140
Infant mortality rate	−0.829	0.353	−0.093	−0.115
Urbanisation rate	0.491	−0.444	0.447	−0.168
Female occupation rate	−0.305	−0.105	−0.675	−0.460
Male ocupation rate	−0.073	0.200	−0.005	−0.838
GNP per capita	0.941	0.037	0.038	0.037
Percentage of service industry workers (male)	0.873	−0.252	0.260	−0.056
Percentage of service industry workers (female)	0.864	−0.074	0.215	0.209
Percentage of female ministers	0.821	0.050	−0.280	0.032
% expl var	46	20	9.9	4.9