A comparison results of factor analysis and cluster analysis to the migration of young people from the Kurdistan region to Europe

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The research aims to identify the most important factors affecting the migration of young people from the Kurdistan Region to Europe by factor analysis and cluster analysis and then compare the results to get the most important variables .Data was collected based on the questionnaire form which was distributed some students in all departments in College of Administration and Economics at Salahaddin University-Erbil.

In the practical section, principal Component method in factor analysis and Ward method in cluster analysis were used to determine the most influential variables in migration of young people in Kurdistan.

The research was reached that there are similarities of the variables extracted in factor analysis and cluster analysis (the number of factors is equal to the number of clusters) as well as the sequence of variables within the factors are the same sequence of variables in the clusters except the factor and cluster (four and five) there are an exchange in place of variables, and it was the most important influencing variables are the bad economic situation, unemployment, lack of employment jobs and salaries, and a lack of young people confidence in the government and political parties