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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 14.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2016 Feb;48(2):235–244. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000760

Table 3. Specificity and sensitivity (95% CI) for the agreement between the different PAQs and objective method.


IPAQ RPAQ EPIC

Specificity %
(95% CI)
Sensitivity %
(95% CI)
Specificity %
(95% CI)
Sensitivity %
(95% CI)
Specificity %
(95% CI)
Sensitivity %
(95% CI)

Country
Denmark 77.8 (71.7 to 84.0) 21.9 (15.8 to 30.0) 100.0 (95.1 to 100.0) 12.4 (7.5 to 17.3) 55.6 (46.8 to 61.4) 49.5 (42.1 to 56.9)
France 94.9 (91.6 to 98.7) 4.2 (1.2 to 7.2) 91.9 (87.8 to 96.0) 23.6 (17.2 to 30.0) 45.5 (36.2 to 55.2) 65.3 (58.2 to 72.4)
Germany 91.8 (84.7 to 95.8) 12.7 (7.7 to 20.2) 96.0 (90.0 to 98.4) 7.3 (3.8 to 10.9) 54.1 (44.3 to 63.6) 67.3 (58.0 to 75.3)
Greece 77.8 (71.8 to 83.8) 40.0 (32.9 to 47.1) 90.3 (86.0 to 94.6) 36.4 (29.4 to 43.4) 27.8 (21.3 to 34.3) 89.1 (84.6 to 93.6)
Italy 84.8 (75.3 to 91.1) 22.4 (15.8 to 30.8) 92.4 (84.4 to 96.5) 25.0 (18.1 to 33.6) 45.6 (35.1 to 56.5) 81.0 (72.9 to 87.3)
Netherlands 95.6 (90.7 to 98.0) 7.0 (3.1 to 15.5) 99.3 (96.5 to 99.9) 1.4 (0.2 to 7.6) 54.1 (47.3 to 60.9) 74.6 (68.7 to 88.2)
Norway 82.2 (74.2 to 88.3) 39.1 (28.5 to 50.1) 91.6 (84.8 to 95.5) 34.8 (24.6 to 47.5) 65.4 (56.0 to 73.8) 63.8 (52.8 to 74.1)
Spain 93.3 (87.7 to 96.1) 15.9 (9.4 to 25.0) 92.5 (85.6 to 95.5) 15.7 (10.7 to 20.7) 44.2 (37.5 to 51.0) 64.6 (58.0 to 71.2)
United Kingdom 91.7 (80.5 to 96.7) 14.9 (10.0 to 21.5) 91.7 (80.5 to 96.7) 13.5 (8.9 to 19.5) 56.3 (42.3.3 to 69.3) 68.2 (60.4 to 75.2)
Total women 89.1 (86.3 to 91.4) 20.2 (17.4 to 23.5) 93.3 (91.0 to 95.0) 20.1 (17.9 to 22.3) 47.2 (44.4 to 50.0) 68.7 (67.8 to 73.7)
Total men 87.9 (85.0 to 91.0) 19.5 (16.0 to 23.0) 96.4 (94.7 to 98.1) 14.7 (11.5 to 17.9) 56.5 (52.0 to 61.0) 65.8 (59.5 to 71.6)
Total both sexes 88.7 (86.3 to 91.0) 20.0 (17.5 to 22.7) 94.2 (93.1 to 95.3) 18.7 (16.9 to 20.5) 50.2 (45.4 to 55.0) 69.8 (67.6 to 72.0)