Indicator-level factors often serve as finer-grained causes of secondary-level dimensions.

Evidence

Sometimes the relationship between the indicator level and the secondary level is really a causal one. In this scenario the “indicator” level factors typically propose a finer-grained causal analysis of the secondary-level dimensions. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 447

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Skocpol’s state-breakdown model of social revolution as the worked example, and to Mahoney’s work on causal mechanisms.