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. 2007 Nov 28;7:343. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-343

Table 5.

Agreement between control indexes and proxies about frequency of surrogate consumption among 1564 control households with complete information for both respondents

Control
Control proxy Every day or more often Nearly every day 3–4 times per week Once or twice a week 1–3 times per month A few times per year Never or almost never Total

Every day or more often 2 0 1 2 1 1 0 7
Nearly every day 1 11 8 12 8 4 0 44
Three or four times a week 0 2 14 39 15 3 3 76
Once or twice a week 0 5 17 159 103 15 3 302
1–3 times a month 1 4 7 100 284 66 12 474
A few times per year 1 4 0 22 100 187 21 335
Never or almost never 0 3 1 8 13 32 269 326

Total 5 29 48 342 524 308 308 1,564

Weighted Cohen's kappa coefficient for agreement between 1564 index-proxy pairs = 0.61