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Table 4 Identification of business list with better classification accuracy for selected 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

Supermarkets and grocery stores

Convenience stores

Limited service restaurants

Sensitivity

PPV

Concordance

Sensitivity

PPV

Concordance

Sensitivity

PPV

Concordance

Han [23] estimate

N/A

N/A

InfoUSA: 69–81%

N/A

N/A

InfoUSA: 49%

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 75–91%

N/A

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 24%

N/A

N/A

N/A

Liese [16] estimate [CI]

InfoUSA: 0.61 [0.54, 0.69]

InfoUSA: 0.57 [0.50, 0.65]

N/A

InfoUSA: 0.63 [0.59, 0.68]

InfoUSA: 0.79 [0.74, 0.83]

N/A

InfoUSA: 0.08 [0.06, 0.10]

InfoUSA: 0.81 [0.71, 0.91]

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.58 [0.51, 0.66]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.39 [0.33, 0.46]

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.40 [0.36, 0.45]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.63 [0.58, 0.69]

N/A

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.41 [0.38, 0.45]

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.67 [0.62, 0.71]

N/A

Powell [17] estimate (SE)

InfoUSA: 0.54 (0.04)

InfoUSA: 0.44 (0.03)

InfoUSA: 0.32 (0.03)

InfoUSA: 0.50 (0.03)

InfoUSA: 0.62 (0.03)

InfoUSA: 0.38 (0.02)

InfoUSA: 0.09 (0.01)

InfoUSA: 0.52 (0.04)

InfoUSA: 0.09 (0.01)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.46 (0.04)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.29 (0.03)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.22 (0.02)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.38 (0.03)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.48 (0.03)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.27 (0.02)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.22 (0.01)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.61 (0.03)

Dun and Bradstreet: 0.19 (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