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Table 3 Goodness-of-fit indices for a priori and final re-specified individual-level, country-specific measurement models of the NEWS/NEWS-A

From: Sharing good NEWS across the world: developing comparable scores across 12 countries for the neighborhood environment walkability scale (NEWS)

  A priori models   Final models  
IPEN country χ2(df) CFI RMSEA (95% CI) SRMR χ2(df) CFI RMSEA (95% CI) SRMR
Australia 593 (161) 0.934 0.041 (0.037, 0.044) 0.040 534 (139) 0.934 0.042 (0.039, 0.046) 0.044
Belgium 914 (202) 0.856 0.056 (0.052, 0.059) 0.058 462 (141) 0.907 0.045 (0.040, 0.049) 0.055
Brazil 340 (181) 0.906 0.046 (0.040, 0.056) 0.055 249 (155) 0.927 0.040 (0.031, 0.049) 0.053
Colombia 351 (202) 0.928 0.044 (0.036, 0.051) 0.068 262 (175) 0.956 0.036 (0.026, 0.044) 0.065
Czech Republic 453 (201) 0.897 0.053 (0.046, 0.059) 0.066 357 (171) 0.915 0.049 (0.042, 0.056) 0.060
Denmark 491 (202) 0.901 0.048 (0.043, 0.053) 0.052 316 (179) 0.948 0.035 (0.029, 0.041) 0.047
Hong Kong 247 (142) 0.952 0.041 (0.032, 0.049) 0.044 248 (144) 0.953 0.040 (0.032, 0.048) 0.045
Mexico 630 (202) 0.862 0.056 (0.050, 0.062) 0.068 369 (177) 0.915 0.046 (0.039, 0.053) 0.065
New Zealand 722 (202) 0.896 0.043 (0.040, 0.047) 0.045 501 (173) 0.930 0.037 (0.033, 0.041) 0.042
Spain 716 (202) 0.876 0.057 (0.052, 0.061) 0.065 512 (174) 0.911 0.050 (0.045, 0.055) 0.060
United Kingdom 322 (161) 0.933 0.036 (0.030, 0.042) 0.044 234 (137) 0.956 0.031 (0.024, 0.037) 0.045
United States of America 581 (202) 0.940 0.042 (0.039, 0.046) 0.046 480 (173) 0.951 0.041 (0.036, 0.045) 0.046
  1. All χ2 significant at the < .001 level; NEWS = Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale; NEWS-A: NEWS – Abbreviated form; df = degrees of freedom; CFI = comparative fit index; RMSEA, Root mean square error of approximation; SRMR, Standardized root mean squared residuals; 95% CI = 95% confidence intervals.
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