After briefly explaining an index of homogeneity for the items of a measurement scale, this paper describes a program that computes the index. Written in SAS, the program converts an output data set created by a factor analysis to two matrices: (a) the absolute values of the interitem correlations and (b) the item commonalities. These matrices are used to calculate the index.
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