Hi,

I was hoping someone could help me.
I ran the command
Loneway recycling acode
Where recycling is the recycling rate within a local authority, and acode is the code for each local authority.
Below are my results. What does it mean by 'intraclass correlation' here? Am I correct in thinking around two thirds of the variation in recycling rates comes from between local authorities; Is there is a high correlation of recycling rates due to local authority specific variation.

Thank You


One-way Analysis of Variance for recycling:

Number of obs = 6,350
R-squared = 0.6220

Source SS df MS F Prob > F
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Between acode 103750.6 317 327.28895 31.31 0.0000
Within acode 63046.518 6,032 10.452009
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Total 166797.12 6,349 26.2714

Intraclass Asy.
correlation S.E. [95% Conf. Interval]
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0.60287 0.02016 0.56336 0.64237

Estimated SD of acode effect 3.983316
Estimated SD within acode 3.232957
Est. reliability of a acode mean 0.96806
(evaluated at n=19.97)