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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2016 May 18;106(3):717–722.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.04.042

Table 1.

Agreement in Mother’s Race and Ethnicity, Delivery Outcome, and Plurality in Vital Records versus the SART CORS

Massachusetts Vital Statistics
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology
Clinic Outcome Reporting System (SART CORS)
Maternal Non-Hispanic Non-Hispanic
Race/Ethnicity Hispanic White Black Asian Overall
Hispanic 75.0 1.0 2.3 0.4
Non-Hispanic White 19.3 97.5 4.5 5.7
Non-Hispanic Black 3.4 0.4 90.9 0.9
Asian 2.3 1.1 2.3 93.0
Overall 95.3
      Kappa = 0.86 (0.83, 0.88)
Delivery Outcome Live Birth Fetal Death Overall
Live Birth 99.9 11.8
Fetal Death 0.1 88.2
Overall 99.9
      Kappa = 0.88 (0.87-0.89)
Plurality at Birth Singleton Twins Triplets+ Overall
Singleton 99.8 1.4 0.0
Twins 0.1 98.6 3.0
Triplets + 0.1 0.0 97.0
Overall 99.5
      Kappa = 0.99 (0.98, 0.99)