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Table 2 Identification of data source (InfoUSA or Dun and Bradstreet) with better count accuracy statistics for food stores and restaurants

From: A step-by-step approach to improve data quality when using commercial business lists to characterize retail food environments

 Study

All outlets

All food stores

All restaurants

Sensitivity

PPV

Sensitivity

PPV

Sensitivity

PPV

D’Angelo [22] estimate (SE)

N/A

N/A

InfoUSA: 0.84 (0.01)

InfoUSA: 0.87 (0.01)

N/A

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.64 (0.02)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.91 (0.01)

Fleischhacker [8] estimate [CI]

InfoUSA: 0.89 [0.86, 0.92]

InfoUSA: 0.67 [0.63, 0.70]

N/A

N/A

InfoUSA: 0.91 [0.88, 0.94]

InfoUSA: 0.71 [0.66, 0.75]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.41 [0.37, 0.45]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.31 [0.28, 0.34]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.38 [0.32, 0.44]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.29 [0.25, 0.34]

Liese [15] estimate [CI]

InfoUSA: 0.65 [0.63, 0.67]

InfoUSA: 0.86 [0.85, 0.88]

InfoUSA: 0.61 [0.58, 0.64]

InfoUSA: 0.82 [0.79, 0.85]

InfoUSA: 0.67 [0.65, 0.70]

InfoUSA: 0.90 [0.88, 0.92]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.55 [0.53, 0.57]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.78 [0.76, 0.80]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.63 [0.60, 0.66]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.76 [0.73, 0.79]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.50 [0.47, 0.53]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.79 [0.77, 0.82]

Powell [17] estimate (SE)

N/A

N/A

InfoUSA: 0.64 (0.02)

InfoUSA: 0.61 (0.02)

InfoUSA: 0.65 (0.01)

InfoUSA: 0.79 (0.01)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.52 (0.02)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.45 (0.02)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.55 (0.01)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.66 (0.01)

  1. Italic indicates statistically higher validity statistic as compared to the other data source
  2. Standard errors and confidence intervals reported as originally reported in the cited papers