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Factor Analysis returns error that there are fewer than 2 cases, variable with 0 variance, or only 1 variable

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Problem

I am performing Factor Analysis with data that has a lot of missing values. My data has over 9,000 records but most of the questions were not fully answered so when I run the Factor Analysis I get an error message like: Warnings There are fewer than two cases, at least one of the variables has zero variance, there is only one variable in the analysis, or correlation coefficients could not be computed for all pairs of variables. No further statistics will be computed. Is there any way I can handle this?

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Modified date:
16 April 2020

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