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We compared ecometric neighbourhood scores of social capital (contextual variation) to mean neighbourhood scores (individual and contextual variation), using several health‐related outcomes (i.e. self‐rated health, weight status and obesity‐related behaviours).

Data were analysed from 5,900 participants in the European SPOTLIGHT survey. Factor analysis of the 13‐item social capital scale revealed two social capital constructs: social networks and social cohesion. The associations of ecometric and mean neighbourhood‐level scores of these constructs with self‐rated health, weight status and obesity‐related behaviours were analysed using multilevel regression analyses, adjusted for key covariates.

Analyses using ecometric and mean neighbourhood scores, but not mean neighbourhood scores adjusted for individual scores, yielded similar regression coefficients. Higher levels of social network and social …