Measuring early childhood development in multiple contexts: the internal factor structure and reliability of the early Human Capability Index in seven low and middle income countries

Sincovich, Alanna; Gregory, Tess; Zanon, Cristian; Santos, Daniel D.; Lynch, John; Brinkman, Sally A.

doi:10.1186/s12887-019-1852-5

Table 4 Model fit indices from confirmatory factor analyses in each country

From: Measuring early childhood development in multiple contexts: the internal factor structure and reliability of the early Human Capability Index in seven low and middle income countries

		X² (df)	RMSEA (90% CI)	CFI	TLI
Brazil	Full sample	4595.48 (1503)	0.034 (0.033–0.035)	0.94	0.94
	3-year-olds	3772.55 (1394)	0.055 (0.053–0.057)	0.75	0.74
	4-year-olds	4413.833 (1503)	0.050 (0.049–0.052)	0.82	0.80
	5-year-olds	2157.71 (1448)	0.034 (0.031–0.037)	0.92	0.92
China	Full sample	35,272.80 (1616)	0.043 (0.042–0.043)	0.92	0.92
	3-year-olds	10,356.63 (1616)	0.040 (0.039–0.041)	0.94	0.93
	4-year-olds	12,039.11 (1616)	0.044 (0.043–0.045)	0.87	0.86
	5-year-olds	9892.98 (1616)	0.039 (0.038–0.040)	0.84	0.83
Kiribati	Full sample	28,191.32 (1979)	0.040 (0.039–0.040)	0.93	0.93
	3-year-olds	8200.71 (1979)	0.038 (0.037–0.039)	0.92	0.92
	4-year-olds	7057.17 (1682)	0.039 (0.038–0.040)	0.91	0.91
	5-year-olds	6245.19 (1979)	0.033 (0.032–0.034)	0.91	0.91
Lao PDR	Full sample	22,116.62 (1456)	0.044 (0.043–0.044)	0.90	0.90
	3-year-olds	4744.53 (1456)	0.036 (0.035–0.037)	0.87	0.86
	4-year-olds	5528.15 (1456)	0.039 (0.038–0.040)	0.86	0.85
	5-year-olds	5379.22 (1456)	0.041 (0.040–0.042)	0.89	0.89
Samoa	Full sample	89,517.11 (1674)	0.066 (0.065–0.066)	0.94	0.93
	3-year-olds	31,146.12 (1616)	0.065 (0.064–0.065)	0.93	0.93
	4-year-olds	34,712.58 (1674)	0.065 (0.065–0.066)	0.94	0.93
	5-year-olds	14,613.05 (1674)	0.062 (0.061–0.062)	0.94	0.94
Tonga	Full sample	23,936.63 (1793)	0.045 (0.044–0.045)	0.93	0.93
	3-year-olds	6172.07 (1793)	0.039 (0.038–0.040)	0.91	0.91
	4-year-olds	7724.07 (1793)	0.040 (0.039–0.041)	0.92	0.92
	5-year-olds	7839.75 (1793)	0.041 (0.040–0.042)	0.90	0.90
Tuvalu	Full sample	4144.74 (2043)	0.043 (0.041–0.045)	0.95	0.94
	3-year-olds	2540.33 (2043)	0.039 (0.033–0.043)	0.95	0.95
	`4-year-olds	2483.74 (1854)	0.043 (0.039–0.048)	0.89	0.88
	5-year-olds	2600.80 (2043)	0.037 (0.033–0.042)	0.89	0.89

Note. p < .001 for all models, df degrees of freedom, CI Confidence interval. Differing df across CFAs within a country highlight instances where items were dropped from the model to enable estimation of model parameters. In Brazil, read6 and write6 were dropped from the 3yo CFA, and write1 was dropped from the 5yo CFA. In Kiribati, all phys items were dropped from the 4yo CFA. In Samoa, phys2 was dropped from the 3yo CFA. In Tuvalu, phys3, phys4, and phys5 were dropped from the 4yo CFA

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