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. 2010 Sep 29;92(6):1436–1445. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29386

TABLE 2.

Percentage agreement between methods for determining the accuracy of energy reporting in 2868 adolescents with an average age of 13.8 y from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children1

PAPAL
PAMVPA
PAlow Underreporter (n = 1486, 51.8%) Plausible reporter (n = 1087, 37.9%) Overreporter (n = 295, 10.3%) Underreporter (n = 1065, 37.1%) Plausible reporter (n = 1217, 42.4%) Overreporter (n = 586, 20.4%)
Underreporter (n = 1476, 51.5%) 88.0 15.5 0 97.4 36.1 0
Plausible reporter (n = 1170, 40.8%) 12.0 78.8 45.8 2.6 63.5 63.0
Overreporter (n = 222, 7.7%) 0 5.7 54.2 0 0.4 37.0
1

PAlow, physical activity coefficients assigned as low-active; PAPAL, physical activity coefficients obtained from estimated physical activity levels; PAMVPA, physical activity coefficients obtained from minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Bowker's Test of Symmetry was significant (P < 0.001), which indicated that there were different proportions of children in the energy-reporting categories between PAlow (based on a low-active PA coefficient), PAPAL (based on PAL values), and the PAMVPA (based on accelerometer data). The κ coefficient for interrater reliability was 0.66 (“substantial agreement”) between PAlow and PAPAL and was 0.53 (“moderate agreement”) between PAlow and PAMVPA.