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. 2010 Aug 10;10:73. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-73

Table 5.

ICC for HBSC survey questionnaire items about substance use of 15-year-old children by gender (n = 51)

All (n = 51) Girls (n = 20) Boys (n = 31)



ICC 95% CI ICC 95% CI ICC 95% CI
Have ever smoked 0.75 0.60-0.85 NA / 0.63 0.36-0.80
How often smoke at present 0.50 0.27-0.68 NA / 0.48 0.15-0.71
How many cigarettes ever smoked 0.85 0.75-0.91 NA / 0.81 0.64-0.90
How often drink beer 0.80 0.67-0.88 0.96 0.90-0.98 0.82 0.66-0.91
How often drink wine 0.53 0.30-0.70 0.70 0.39-0.87 0.42 0.09-0.67
How often drink strong liquors 0.44 0.19-0.64 0.76 0.49-0.90 0.64 0.37-0.81
Have ever been drunk 0.85 0.76-0.91 0.83 0.61-0.93 0.85 0.72-0.93

ICC = Single measure intraclass correlation coefficient

HBSC = Health Behaviour in School-aged Children

NA: Not applicable due to lack of variance