Table 5.

Agreement between maternal report of paternal history of 3+ alcohol dependence symptoms and (a) father self-report, and (b) twin narrow versus broad ratings of paternal alcohol problems, as a function of maternal educational attainment.

	EA Mothers				AA Mothers
	N	%a	ρ	S.E.	N	%a	ρ	S.E.
Father self-report
Maternal education
< high school	59	40.4	0.43	0.20	11	26.8	0.16	0.47
high school	397	62.1	0.62	0.07	29	31.5	--#	--
> high school	564	70.9	0.68	0.06	40	39.2	0.41	0.30
Twin rating of father (narrow)
Maternal education
< high school	200	87.7	0.64	0.09	52	86.7	−0.11	0.27
high school	1023	83.4	0.79	0.03	124	86.1	0.46*	0.19
> high school	1366	95.7	0.84	0.03	155	90.1	0.64*	0.14
Twin rating of father (broad)
Maternal education
< high school	201	88.2	0.73	0.08	52	86.7	0.34	0.23
high school	1025	93.6	0.81	0.03	124	86.1	0.62*	0.13
> high school	1373	96.1	0.83	0.03	156	90.7	0.61*	0.15

ρ = tetrachoric correlation; SE = standard error;

^apercentage of mother reports that could be compared to a father or twin report;

^# cases where no inter-rater agreement was observed;

^*EA>AA agreement, p < .01.