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PLOS ONE
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174417
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- Evaluation Platform on Obesity Prevention
- Foundation of the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute [3207]
- Quebec's Funds for Health Research [FQS109600]
- Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
- National Institutes of Health [K23HL111211]
- University of British Columbia
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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This paper reviews studies of the validity of commercially available business (CAB) data on food establishments (the foodscape), offering a meta-analysis of characteristics associated with CAB quality and a case study evaluating the performance of commonly-used validity indicators describing the foodscape. Existing validation studies report a broad range in CAB data quality, although most studies conclude that CAB quality is moderate to substantial. We conclude that current studies may underestimate the quality of CAB data. We recommend that future validation studies use density-adjusted and exposure measures to offer a more meaningful characterization of the relationship of data error with spatial exposure.
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