A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RATING SCALE FOR PHILIPPINE POBLACIONES

Abstract

The paper presents an empirical demonstration of the degree to which it is possible to use a simple rating of which twenty-one facilities are present in a community as an index of that community's level of development. Two hundred nine poblacions in the seven Tagalog speaking provinces of Luzon were studied. A generalized Guttman type scale was devised which was found to have 96% reproducibility. Further, the scale correlated highly with one used elsewhere in the Philippines. Sample items include presence of a hotel, public telephone, shoe repair shop, plaza, high school, and gas station. Relationship to other types of scales is discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 16, 1967
Accession Number
AD0657684

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  • James M. Mckendry
  • Salvador A. Parco

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  • HRB Systems

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  • Accuracy
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Communications Techniques
  • Communities
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Factor Analysis
  • Families (Human)
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Municipalities
  • Philippines
  • Psychology
  • Repair Shops
  • Reproducibility
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistical Samples

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