$\begingroup$ +1. A very neat and simple answer. Just I want to scratch off a tiny nuance about that a little bit dogmatic/narrow use a PCA when the theory behind the index variable is that the index is an outcome of the indicators, we assume that there is some latent construct called "prejudice" that is influencing how people answer these questions. More @Wikipedia
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