TY - JOUR
T1 - High agreement on family affluence between children's and parents' reports: international study of 11-year-olds.
AU - Andersen, Anette
AU - Krølner, Rikke
AU - Currie, Candace
AU - Dallago, Lorenza
AU - Due, Pernille
AU - Richter, Matthias
AU - Orkényi, Agota
AU - Holstein, Bjørn Evald
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To examine the agreement between parents' and children's reports on four items of family affluence: number of cars, own bedroom, number of family holidays, and number of computers, and to analyse predictors of disagreement. DESIGN: Cross sectional child-parent validation study of selected items from an internationally standardised questionnaire. SETTING: Survey conducted in schools in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 972 11-year-old children and their parents responded to the questionnaires. RESULTS: The child item response rates were high (above 93%). The percent agreement was low for holidays spent with family (52.5%), but high for the other three items of family affluence (76.2% - 88.1%). The kappa coefficients were good or excellent for all items (between 0.41 and 0.74) and the gamma coefficients were strong for all items (between 0.56 and 0.96). Children from single parent families were more likely to over-report family affluence (OR=2.67, CI: 1.83-3.89). CONCLUSIONS: Young adolescents' self-reports of family affluence are fairly valid across six countries. This finding suggests that the variables measured can be used in epidemiological studies which aim at ranking children according to socioeconomic position.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To examine the agreement between parents' and children's reports on four items of family affluence: number of cars, own bedroom, number of family holidays, and number of computers, and to analyse predictors of disagreement. DESIGN: Cross sectional child-parent validation study of selected items from an internationally standardised questionnaire. SETTING: Survey conducted in schools in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 972 11-year-old children and their parents responded to the questionnaires. RESULTS: The child item response rates were high (above 93%). The percent agreement was low for holidays spent with family (52.5%), but high for the other three items of family affluence (76.2% - 88.1%). The kappa coefficients were good or excellent for all items (between 0.41 and 0.74) and the gamma coefficients were strong for all items (between 0.56 and 0.96). Children from single parent families were more likely to over-report family affluence (OR=2.67, CI: 1.83-3.89). CONCLUSIONS: Young adolescents' self-reports of family affluence are fairly valid across six countries. This finding suggests that the variables measured can be used in epidemiological studies which aim at ranking children according to socioeconomic position.
U2 - 10.1136/jech.2007.065169
DO - 10.1136/jech.2007.065169
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 18413436
SN - 0143-005X
VL - 62
SP - 1092
EP - 1094
JO - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
JF - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
IS - 13
ER -