Table 1.
Inter-observer reliability for simultaneous measurements of 594 children in rural Ethiopia.
Figure 1.
Bland-Altman plots depicting intra-anthropometrist agreement.
Plots shown for measurements of (A) height, (B) weight, and (C) middle upper arm circumference in 84 children aged 0–5 years in a community-based study in Ethiopia. The solid horizontal line represents the mean percent difference between the measurements, and the dashed lines represent the 95% limits of agreement.
Table 2.
Intra-anthropometrist reliability for repeated measurements of 84 children in rural Ethiopia.
Figure 2.
Bland-Altman plots depicting inter-anthropometrist agreement.
Plots shown for measurements of (A) height, (B) weight, and (C) middle upper arm circumference in 89 children aged 0–5 years in a community-based study in Ethiopia. The solid horizontal line represents the mean percent difference between the measurements, and the dashed lines represent the 95% limits of agreement.
Table 3.
Inter-anthropometrist reliability for repeated measurements of 89 children in rural Ethiopia.
Table 4.
Inter-anthropometrist reliability for repeated measurements of 89 children, stratified by quartile of measurement.
Table 5.
Inter-anthropometrist reliability of height measurements compared to length measurements.
Table 6.
Reliability of a single measurement, the median of 3 measurements, and the mean of 3 measurements.
Figure 3.
Reproducibility of scales in field conditions.
Graphs show (A) the 9.0 kg test weight and (B) the 4.5 kg test weight, over the 10 days of the study. The 2 different scales are depicted in black or grey, and the 2 different test weight sets are depicted as dashed or solid lines. Test weights were measured after every 10th child of the day, represented as a hash mark on the x-axis. Discontinuities in the lines indicate that the anthropometry team examined less children than the other team.
Figure 4.
The proportion of recorded measurements with each of the 10 possible terminal digits, shown for height (white) and MUAC (grey) measurements for (A) anthropometrist 1 and (B) anthropometrist 2. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals, accounting for the clustered study design.