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Table 6 Kappa statistic applied to the contingency tables above for a two status and three status solution. Kappa statistic with lower and upper 95% confidence intervals in parentheses

From: Development of an algorithm for determining smoking status and behaviour over the life course from UK electronic primary care records

GP data algorithm

Two status solution

Three status solution

Full algorithm

0.64 (0.62, 0.66)

0.50 (0.48, 0.52)

Full algorithm without temporal checking

0.61 (0.59, 0.64)

0.62 (0.61, 0.64)

Nearest status

0.78 (0.76, 0.80)

0.71 (0.70, 0.73)