Table 4 Principal Component Analysis Results for Wildfire Smoke Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
| Components | Sensitivity Variables | Proportion of variance (%) |
Adaptive Capacity Variables | Proportion of variance (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Respiratory diseases (asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), Cardiovascular diseases (acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft, hypertension), cerebrovascular diseases (hospitalised stroke) | 47.5 |
Low education, Female | 44.1 |
| 2 | Age (< 5 and > 65 years old) | 16.9 |
Indigenous status, Recent immigrants, Visible minority | 23.3 |
| 3 | General self-rated health | 13.3 | Income inequality | 15.2 |
| 4 | Community belonging | 11.2 | ||
| Total variance explained: | 77.7 | 93.8 | ||