TABLE 4.
Stability of daily step counts by sex at different time intervals.
| Women | Men | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follow-up Year | Kappa (95% CI) | Percent Agreement | Spearman Correlation | Kappa (95% CI) | Percent Agreement | Spearman Correlation |
| 2007–2011 | ||||||
| Total steps per day | 0.30 (0.23–0.38)** | 65.2 | 0.51** | 0.38 (0.29–0.47)** | 69.2 | 0.58** |
| Aerobic steps per day | 0.31 (0.24–0.38)** | 65.5 | 0.42** | 0.31 (0.21–0.40)** | 65.4 | 0.42** |
| 2011–2020 | ||||||
| Total steps per day | 0.39 (0.32–0.46)** | 70.1 | 0.53** | 0.35 (0.26–0.44)** | 68.0 | 0.50** |
| Aerobic steps per day | 0.27 (0.20–0.35)** | 64.7 | 0.40** | 0.31 (0.22–0.41)** | 65.6 | 0.41** |
| 2007–2020 | ||||||
| Total steps per day | 0.29 (0.22–0.37)** | 65.0 | 0.45** | 0.26 (0.16–0.36)** | 63.5 | 0.43** |
| Aerobic steps per day | 0.09 (0.01–0.16)* | 54.1 | 0.31** | 0.27 (0.17–0.37)** | 62.9 | 0.38** |
*P < 0.05 (two-tailed).
**P < 0.01 (two-tailed).