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Sometimes referred to as ‘intra class correlation’ in survey work, this strictly measures correlation between units within a higher level unit. For simple two-level variance component or random intercept models this is equivalent to the proportion of variance at the higher level, and so equal to the variance partition coefficient (VPC).
