Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment
Abstract Objective: Commercially available business (CAB) datasets for food environments have been investigated for error in large urban contexts and some rural areas, but there is a relative dearth of literature that reports error across regions of variable rurality. The objective of the current st...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1368980019004506 2024-06-23T07:54:48+00:00 Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment Taylor, Nathan GA Stymest, Jillian Mah, Catherine L 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980019004506 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1368980019004506 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Public Health Nutrition volume 23, issue 11, page 1889-1895 ISSN 1368-9800 1475-2727 journal-article 2020 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980019004506 2024-06-12T04:03:57Z Abstract Objective: Commercially available business (CAB) datasets for food environments have been investigated for error in large urban contexts and some rural areas, but there is a relative dearth of literature that reports error across regions of variable rurality. The objective of the current study was to assess the validity of a CAB dataset using a government dataset at the provincial scale. Design: A ground-truthed dataset provided by the government of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) was used to assess a popular commercial dataset. Concordance, sensitivity, positive-predictive value (PPV) and geocoding errors were calculated. Measures were stratified by store types and rurality to investigate any association between these variables and database accuracy. Setting: NL, Canada. Participants: The current analysis used store-level (ecological) data. Results: Of 1125 stores, there were 380 stores that existed in both datasets and were considered true-positive stores. The mean positional error between a ground-truthed and test point was 17·72 km. When compared with the provincial dataset of businesses, grocery stores had the greatest agreement, sensitivity = 0·64, PPV = 0·60 and concordance = 0·45. Gas stations had the least agreement, sensitivity = 0·26, PPV = 0·32 and concordance = 0·17. Only 4 % of commercial data points in rural areas matched every criterion examined. Conclusions: The commercial dataset exhibits a low level of agreement with the ground-truthed provincial data. Particularly retailers in rural areas or belonging to the gas station category suffered from misclassification and/or geocoding errors. Taken together, the commercial dataset is differentially representative of the ground-truthed reality based on store-type and rurality/urbanity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Cambridge University Press Canada Newfoundland Public Health Nutrition 23 11 1889 1895 |
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Abstract Objective: Commercially available business (CAB) datasets for food environments have been investigated for error in large urban contexts and some rural areas, but there is a relative dearth of literature that reports error across regions of variable rurality. The objective of the current study was to assess the validity of a CAB dataset using a government dataset at the provincial scale. Design: A ground-truthed dataset provided by the government of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) was used to assess a popular commercial dataset. Concordance, sensitivity, positive-predictive value (PPV) and geocoding errors were calculated. Measures were stratified by store types and rurality to investigate any association between these variables and database accuracy. Setting: NL, Canada. Participants: The current analysis used store-level (ecological) data. Results: Of 1125 stores, there were 380 stores that existed in both datasets and were considered true-positive stores. The mean positional error between a ground-truthed and test point was 17·72 km. When compared with the provincial dataset of businesses, grocery stores had the greatest agreement, sensitivity = 0·64, PPV = 0·60 and concordance = 0·45. Gas stations had the least agreement, sensitivity = 0·26, PPV = 0·32 and concordance = 0·17. Only 4 % of commercial data points in rural areas matched every criterion examined. Conclusions: The commercial dataset exhibits a low level of agreement with the ground-truthed provincial data. Particularly retailers in rural areas or belonging to the gas station category suffered from misclassification and/or geocoding errors. Taken together, the commercial dataset is differentially representative of the ground-truthed reality based on store-type and rurality/urbanity. |
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Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment |
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Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment |
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Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment |
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Validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment |
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validation of a province-wide commercial food store dataset in a heterogeneous predominantly rural food environment |
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