“…We acknowledge that there is some controversy surrounding some aspects of this metric, such as whether the computed statistic is in fact a risk ratio or an odds ratio, 6 and whether it sufficiently deals with over-dispersion in the data (see Marchant, 2004Marchant, , 2005. To address this, we use an approach adopted elsewhere (Farrington et al, 2007;Weisburd, Telep, Hinkle, & Eck, 2008) of multiplying the standard error by an inflation factor (IF, in this case two) when calculating confidence intervals.…”