Table 5 The indicator of \({BC}\) for street-blocks from the MSDCW dataset19 and official datasets of different levels in selected cities.

From: A dataset of multi-level street-block divisions of 985 cities worldwide

City

Levels of Official Data

Levels of MSDCW19

Average for Levels of Official Data

Average for City

L1

L2

L3

L4

L5

Nanjing

Parcels of land use planning

0.967

0.950

0.889

0.821

0.815

0.888

0.888

Xi’an

Parcels of land use planning

0.989

0.969

0.921

0.855

0.815

0.910

0.910

Tokyo

City/Rural Blocks

0.878

0.744

0.646

0.547

0.880

0.739

0.831

Basic Unit Blocks

0.979

0.953

0.932

0.878

0.625

0.873

Enumeration Districts

0.980

0.956

0.937

0.888

0.635

0.879

Sydney

SA4

0.582

0.783

0.881

0.948

0.994

0.838

0.788

SA3

0.427

0.597

0.757

0.887

0.985

0.731

SA2

0.590

0.489

0.516

0.697

0.947

0.648

SA1

0.954

0.918

0.860

0.758

0.713

0.841

Mesh Blocks

0.974

0.956

0.932

0.896

0.666

0.885

Singapore

Planning Areas

0.566

0.723

0.830

0.888

0.969

0.795

0.872

Subzones

0.810

0.700

0.731

0.794

0.925

0.792

Land Use Layers

0.992

0.981

0.972

0.963

0.887

0.959

Cadastral Land Parcels

0.984

0.962

0.950

0.938

0.873

0.941

London

MSOA

0.647

0.413

0.397

0.471

0.794

0.544

0.632

LSOA

0.845

0.627

0.551

0.442

0.597

0.612

OA

0.944

0.840

0.789

0.669

0.449

0.738

New York

Counties

0.827

0.873

0.956

0.975

0.996

0.925

0.850

Census Tracts

0.799

0.671

0.601

0.639

0.955

0.733

Block Groups

0.895

0.818

0.721

0.680

0.936

0.810

Census Blocks

0.975

0.953

0.922

0.899

0.901

0.930

Mexico City

AGEM

0.547

0.769

0.889

0.953

0.994

0.830

0.852

AGEB

0.922

0.771

0.700

0.593

0.833

0.764

Manzanas

0.996

0.989

0.984

0.976

0.862

0.961

Buenos Aires

Radio Censales

0.967

0.941

0.842

0.711

0.786

0.849

0.849

Cairo

Shyakha and Qurya

0.728

0.634

0.637

0.785

0.971

0.751

0.751

Johannesburg-Pretoria

Small Areas

0.975

0.941

0.882

0.797

0.843

0.888

0.888

Dar es Salaam

Hamlets/Enumeration Areas

0.986

0.980

0.972

0.943

0.749

0.926

0.926

Average for Level

0.847

0.818

0.807

0.796

0.836

0.821

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