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. 2014 May 20;9(5):e96768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096768

Table 3. Corrected BMI (mean, standard deviation –sd, Cole’s classification, Kappa and Intraclass correlation coefficients indexes with 95% confidence intervals −95%CI).

Boys Girls
Correction by body shape perception: model 1
Mean corrected BMI (sd) 22.21 (2.62) 22.02 (3.49)
Mean corrected BMI-actual BMI (sd) −0.00 (1.68) −0.00 (1.33)
Corrected BMI classification (%)
Underweight 3.7 7.1
Normal weight 79.1 80.0
Overweight 16.0 10.7
Obese 1.2 2.1
Agreement with actual BMI
Weighted Kappa 0.63 0.65
(95%CI) (0.50–0.76) (0.52–0.78)
ICC 0.67 0.74
(95%CI) (0.58–0.74) (0.66–0.81)
% of correctly classified (%) 85.3 85.0
Correction by objective socioeconomic status: model 2
Mean corrected BMI (sd) 22.21 (2.55) 22.02 (3.45)
Mean corrected BMI-actual BMI (sd) −0.00 (1.78) −0.00 (1.78)
Corrected BMI classification (%)
Underweight 4.3 5.0
Normal weight 81.0 82.1
Overweight 14.7 10.7
Obese 0.0 2.1
Agreement with actual BMIa
Weighted Kappa 0.58 0.68
(95%CI) (0.44–0.72) (0.55–0.82)
ICC 0.59 0.76
(95%CI) (0.48–0.68) (0.68–0.82)
% of correctly classified (%) 83.4 87.1
a

overweight and obese are aggregated for boys.

Source: Escapad Paris 2010, analytic subsample without non-respondents (n = 303).