| 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 | |||