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

Table 7 Internal reliability of eHCI domains

	Brazil		China		Kiribati		Lao PDR		Samoa		Tonga		Tuvalu
	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα	Cα	Oα
Physical Health	.20	.52	.25	.43	.61	.76	–	–	.34	.48	.47	.56	.61	.77
Verbal Communication	.67	.93	.67	.87	.78	.91	.70	.88	.78	.90	.69	.92	.73	.93
Cultural Knowledge	.52	.89	.80	.90	.84	.93	.53	.79	.89	.95	.79	.89	.82	.92
Social and Emotional	.85	.95	.71	.84	.83	.91	.73	.84	.85	.90	.50	.70	.80	.91
Perseverance	.75	.89	.48	.62	.26	.33	.15	.17	.38	.45	.23	.31	.60	.75
Approaches to Learning	.71	.91	.70	.86	.67	.86	.74	.88	.85	.94	.80	.91	.73	.90
Numeracy	.84	.94	.87	.95	.86	.94	.80	.91	.92	.97	.89	.96	.90	.97
Reading	.61	.87	.79	.90	.79	.91	.72	.91	.87	.95	.82	.92	.82	.93
Writing	.78	.87	.59	.78	.83	.94	.65	.93	.89	.96	.83	.96	.83	.94

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