A Sustainable Financing Credit Rating Model for China’s Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Table 3

Numbers 1–9 scale table.

𝑥 and 𝑦 qualitative comparison results	𝑓(𝑥,𝑦)	𝑓(𝑦,𝑥)
𝑥 and 𝑦 have the same importance	1	1
𝑥 is a little more important than 𝑦	3	1/3
𝑥 is obviously more important than 𝑦	5	1/5
𝑥 is much more important than 𝑦	7	1/7
𝑥 is extremely more important than 𝑦	9	1/9
𝑥 to 𝑦 is between each level	2, 4, 6, 8	1/2, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8