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. 2007 Jun 15;4(3):A60.

Table 2.

Agreement Between Telephone-Interviewer Estimate of Race and Self-reported Race Among Subsample (n = 24) of Refusal-Interview Participants, North Carolina, 2005a

Category Black White Total
Self-reported race 4 20 24
Interviewer-estimated race   5 19 24
  Correctly identified 4 19 23
  Incorrectly identified 1 0 1

PRISM indicates Personally Relevant Information About Screening Mammography.

a

Sensitivity of interviewer estimates of black participants = 100% (4/4); positive predictive value of interviewer estimates of black participants = 80% (4/5); specificity of interviewer estimates of white participants = 95% (19/20). κ = 0.86; 95% confidence interval, 0.60–1.00.