Reliability testing of measurements from the EPOCH I instrument.

Note 1:Public services/education facilities is the number of facilities from a list of 6: primary/secondary school, university/technical college, post office, police station, government building, public park. Community infrastructure is the number of characteristics from a list of 5: paved roads, traffic lights, street lights, internet and highway. Similarly Community health facilities are the number of characteristics from a list of 6: Public nurse-only clinic, Public medical clinic, Private medical clinic, Public hospital, Private hospital, Pharmacy that sells medications. Note 2: The low numbers of communities for: ‘cost of residential land’ was because this data was not able to be obtained in many communities in Canada; for ‘Price of Marlboro’ and Restaurant variables was mainly because International brand cigarettes were not available in some rural Indian communities and some rural communities also did not have restaurants.