The Use of Factor Analysis to Identify Some of the Factors Causing Environmental Pollution in Iraq

Abstract

The Iraqi governorates suffer from the problem of environmental pollution and the lapse of air quality because of spreading the resources of fuel burns and air Pollutants, which has been beginning since 1991 after Gulf war as a result of refineries and oil warehouses and chemistry materials stores scorch and fir explosives …etc. So the research aim is to determine and analyze air pollutants in a number of Iraqi oil refiners , the researcher depends on data of the used quantity of fuel in boilers and bakes in the oil refineries and analyze it by factor analysis method . The results explained the existence of six factors represented 90% from total variances of the used variables in the research.