Table 7.

Correlation coefficients, non-numeric variables

	n 1	Cohen’s kappa
Breastfeeding status	94	0.96
Primary reason for weaning	56	0.88
Secondary reason for weaning	56	0.70
Usual drinking vessel	93	0.94
Who holds bottle2	11	1.00
Self feed breakfast	93	0.88
Self feed lunch	93	0.68
Self feed dinner	93	0.78
Self feed afternoon	73	0.49
Self feed evening	91	0.71
Self feed other meals	85	0.35
What child eats when dining out	20	0.91
Food source in day care	94	0.87
What foods sent to day care	33	0.40

¹number responding, n, varies according to applicability of question.

²induded in table despite small number of respondents because of 100% correlation between test and retest. There were 2–4 possible responses for all items except reasons for weaning, for which there were 16 choices each for primary and secondary reasons. All correlation measures significant to p ≤ 0.001.