A replication of the descriptive statistics and factor structure of perceived explanations of unemployment discerned by researchers with 468 subjects from Barbados and 379 from New Zealand and Great Britain was attempted using 114 subjects from the USA. A seven-factor structure was generated, which with incongruent descriptive statistics indicated a lack of agreement as to perceived causes of unemployment across countries. The influence of the local unemployment rate was supported as a stronger explanation of results than the cultural dimension of individualism.
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