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Psychometric and cognitive validation of a social capital measurement tool in Peru and Vietnam

Social capital is a relatively new concept which has attracted significant attention in recent years . No consensus has yet been reached on how to measure social capital, resulting in a large number of different tools available. While psychometric validation methods such as factor analysis have been used by few studies to access the internal validity of some tools, these techniques rely on data already collected by therefore not capable of eliciting what the questions are actually measuring