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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2019 Mar 19;173:212–220. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.03.039

Table 4.

Agreement between first year of life exposures assigned to address at birth (from the birth certificate) vs address at diagnosis (from the CCR) or LexisNexis addresses among cases (age at diagnosis 1–5 years) and controls born 2001–2011a using different buffer sizes.

Buffer = 2000 m
Buffer = 500 m
Birth certificate address vs
LexisNexis Addresses
Birth certificate
address vs
Diagnosis address
Birth certificate address vs
LexisNexis Addresses
Birth certificate
address vs
Diagnosis address
Controls
Cases
Cases
Controls
Cases
Cases
Chemical rb κc rb κc rb κc rb κc rb κc rb κc

Petroleum oil, unclassified 0.78 0.76 0.78 0.77 0.69 0.67 0.73 0.72 0.66 0.64 0.58 0.57
Mineral oil 0.79 0.78 0.80 0.79 0.69 0.68 0.72 0.71 0.65 0.64 0.59 0.58
Diuron 0.79 0.78 0.80 0.80 0.70 0.69 0.71 0.71 0.63 0.62 0.60 0.59
Thiophanate-methyl 0.77 0.75 0.76 0.75 0.67 0.66 0.69 0.69 0.67 0.66 0.54 0.53
Permethrin 0.79 0.77 0.78 0.76 0.70 0.68 0.73 0.72 0.68 0.67 0.58 0.57
Oxyfluorfen 0.83 0.81 0.83 0.81 0.76 0.74 0.75 0.74 0.76 0.75 0.62 0.61
Hexythiazox 0.77 0.76 0.79 0.78 0.67 0.65 0.69 0.69 0.63 0.63 0.45 0.45
Pyrethrins 0.77 0.76 0.78 0.77 0.71 0.69 0.70 0.70 0.66 0.66 0.54 0.54
a

Except 2007

b

Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated using continuous exposure estimates in child’s first year of life

c

Kappa statistics were calculated using binary exposure indicators for child’s first year of life