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Table 1 Level of agreement between independent participant groups for monthly calendars (n = 16)

From: Using participatory epidemiology to investigate women’s knowledge on the seasonality and causes of acute malnutrition in Karamoja, Uganda

Monthly calendar indicator

Kendall’s coefficient of concordance W

Level of agreement

Rainfall

0.73 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Availability of cow milk

0.86 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Availability of goat milk

0.10 (p > 0.05)

Weak

Availability of own-produced sorghum

0.80 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Women’s work in their own gardens

0.59 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Women’s other work

0.46 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Child malnutrition

0.60 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Child malaria

0.83 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Child diarrhoea

0.72 (p < 0.001)

Strong

Human births

0.50 (p < 0.001)

Strong