. 2023 Jun 15;9(6):e17329. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17329

Table 1.

Index system of rural logistics development level.

Level indicators	The secondary indicators	Unit	Weight
Rural logistics infrastructure level	Rural delivery route	Km	0.103
	Post office branch	Unit of office	0.107
	Investment in fixed assets of rural residents' transportation, storage, and postal services	Hundred million Yuan	0.117
Informatization level of rural logistics	Rural broadband access users	Thousands of families	0.115
Informatization level of rural logistics	Telephone penetration	Department/one hundred	0.100
Rural logistics demand level	Delivery quantity	Thousands of parcels	0.141
Rural logistics demand level	freight	Ten thousand tons of parcels	0.104
Rural labor level	Number of rural workers	Unit of labor	0.109
Rural labor level	Postal Service employment	Unit of labor	0.106

Note that to avoid the problems of subjective weighting and overlapping of multi-index data, this paper used the entropy weight method to weigh the rural logistics development level index.