The influence of demographic factors on the supply of company training places in Germany

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 1 Results of the explorative factor analysis after orthogonal rotation

Variables (standardized rates of change)	Factors		Communality
Variables (standardized rates of change)	GROWTH	LABOUR MARKET	Communality
Unemployment rate^a)	0.141	−0.787	0.640
Employed persons^a)	0.112	0.833	0.706
Reported vacancies^a)	−0.021	0.871	0.759
Gross value added, nominal^b)	0.958	0.152	0.941
Gross domestic product, nominal^b)	0.979	0.163	0.986
Gross wages and salaries, domestic^b)	0.924	0.075	0.859
Capital stock (gross fixed assets)^b)	0.957	−0.162	0.941
Real gross domestic product per employed person^b)	0.814	−0.268	0.734
Employee compensation per employee (domestic)^b)	0.936	-0.215	0.922
Proportion of variance explained by factor	0.59	0.29
Cumulative explained variance of factors	0.59	0.88