1. A method for determining a driving factor for a data value of interest in a multidimensional database, the method comprising the steps of: collecting a context for the data value of interest in the multidimensional database, the data value of interest having a plurality of dimensional levels outside a drill path of the data value of interest, each of the plurality of dimensional levels having dimensional members; enumerating the plurality of dimensional levels in a list; selecting a dimensional level from the list; executing a query using the dimensional members of the dimensional level resulting in a set of query results; calculating a variance of the set of query results; and determining a driving factor for the data value of interest based on the variance.