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. 2016 Jun 1;60(7):885–899. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/mew029

Table 2.

Overall: agreement between algorithm- and expert-assigned modules, with an assessment of the degree of information loss when the two approaches were discordant

Jobs in reliability study (n = 1251) Extrapolated proportion (%) of all jobsb
N %a
Exact match 722 57.7 67.5
No match
 Solvent/industry solvent mismatch 46 3.7 3.8
 No information loss 247 19.7 15.0
 Low information loss 34 2.7 2.3
 Medium information loss 80 6.4 5.3
 High information loss 122 9.8 6.2

aProportions are unadjusted for sampling weights.

bExtrapolation to all jobs was calculated by weighting each stratum-specific agreement by the proportion of all jobs observed in that stratum. For example the strata-specific agreement for the Chemist Module, Farming and Food Industry Module, and Industry Solvent Module accounted for 0.9, 18.8, and 0.3% of the extrapolated estimate, respectively. Proportions of all jobs each stratum represented are shown in Table 1 for most modules and Table 4 for the Solvent and Work Location Modules.