The development and validation of an urbanicity scale in a multi-country study

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Corrected item-scale correlations of domains of urbanicity

Domain	Corrected item-scale correlation
Population Size	0.50
Economic Activity	0.88
Built Environment	0.73
Communication	0.80
Education	0.85
Diversity	0.40
Health	0.62

This statistic measures the correlation between individual domains and overall scale score. Scale development literature reports that values greater than 0.40 are typically considered acceptable [19].

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