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. 2010 Dec 10;5(12):e14294. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014294

Table 3. Reliability by region of EPOCH 1 measures: Number and proportion (%) of all items with ICC in the following ranges (38 items in total).

Grouping Number of communities Items with ICC <0.4 Items with ICC 0.4 to 0.75 Items with ICC >0.75
N % N % N %
All communities 93 0 0 14 36.8 24 63.2
Urban 56 0 0 14 36.8 24 63.2
Rural 37 0 0 11 28.9 27 71.1
Canada 39 0 0 11 21.1 27 71.1
Other countries 54 0 0 15 42.1 23 60.5
Brazil/Colombia 20 8 21.1 14 36.8 16 42.1
India 15 2* 5.3 1 2.6 35 92.1
China 19 1 2.6 20 52.6 17 44.7

*Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for these two items was not able to be calculated as was equal to zero for the majority of communities in India.