Repeat Interviews, n=54, non-random urban acquaintances interviewed with same questionnaire 2 months apart
 [59% male; ages 21-63 w/ mean age=38;  51% "college" graduates – so expect higher agreement]
 [marital statuses, among 54, 8 single, 40 married, 2 cohab, 3 divorced, 1 widowed]
kappa
OBJECTIVE ITEMS
01_05 age (correlation) 1.00
02_01 ownership of residence 0.95
03_03 household registration 0.73
03_12 education 0.90  [1 person went from university to primary educ in 2 mos.]
03_13 working? 0.81  [1 from never work->work, 1 retired]
03_16 income, logged (correlation) 0.97
07_01 marital status 1.00
   mean: 0.91
LESS OBJECTIVE
03_22 job -> social activities 0.71
04_01 health 0.44  [1 not to good->excellent, others 1 degree off]
04_08 cigarettes per day 0.74
05_05 happiness 0.51  [1 point disagreements on 4 point scale]
06_01 gender attittude 0.53  [1 & 2 step disagreements]
08_03 relationship of sex partner 0.72
09_03 age of first sex with partner (corr.) 0.90
09_06 time known before 1st sex 0.96
09_07 relationship with partner at 1st sex 0.82
09_08 how met 0.84
  mean: 0.72
SENSITIVE ITEMS
09_09 wanted 1st sex with partner? 0.38  [one-step "very much," "somewhat" disagreements]
09_11 affection for partner 0.61  [one-step disagreements]
10_04 ever hit partner? 0.70
11_02 ever sex with other partner while with this partner? 0.69
11_06 frequency of sex 0.72  [mostly one-step disagreements]
11_07 frequency too much, just right, not enough? 0.72
11_09 sex physically satisfying? 0.61  [one-step disagreements]
11_19 orgasm frequency 0.70  [one-step disagreements]
13_01 total partners, lifetime 0.89
13_04 total partners last month 0.76
13_05 total partners last year 0.85
13_06 total partners before married 0.79
15_02 sexual contact before age 13? 0.54  [BEWARE: 3 people switch answer, 2 say yes both times]
16_01 forced sex? 0.78   [beware, yes answers high here.  11-13/53]
16_02 age when forced sex occured 0.86
16_17 unwanted sexual contact, past 12 months 0.65  [BEWARE: 2 of 4 who said "yes," say "no" 2nd time]
16_21 offensive remarks, last 12 months 0.61  [BEWARE: 8 switch answer, only 10 say yes both times]
17_03 sexually explicit video .... 0.73
17_05 paid (gift) sex 1.00   [same 2/53 said yes both times]
18_02 age when began to masturbate 0.83  [1 of 22 who said "never" 1st time confesses 2nd time]
18_03 masturbation frequency, last 12 mos. 0.76  [one-step deviations]
   mean: 0.75
Notes:  All the kappa values are statistically significant at .05.    Disagreements are weighted by the relative disagreement between ratings.
 In Biometrics 33 (1977), p. 165, Landis and Koch suggest the following categories for strength of agreement between two raters:
poor -> slight .00-.20
fair .21-.40
moderate .41-.60
substantial .61-.80
almost perfect .81-1.00