An Analysis of Factors Influencing Accidents outside Urban Areas in Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Table 3

Saaty’s 1–9 scale of pairwise comparisons.

Intensity of importance	Definition	Explanation
1	Equal importance	Two activities contribute equally to the objective
3	Moderate importance	Experience and judgment slightly favor one activity over another
5	Strong importance	Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over another
7	Very strong	An activity is favored very strongly over another
9	Extreme importance	The evidence favoring one activity over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation
2, 4, 6, 8	Intermediate values	Intermediate values between the two adjacent judgments