Quality Assessment of Data on Waist and Hip Circumferences in the WHO MONICA Project

Table 7. Quality scores for data on waist and hip measurements in the middle and final surveys (see Section 5).
RUA WAIST SCORE HIP SCORE SUMMARY SCORE
Mid Fin Mid Fin Mid Fin
AUS-NEWa 1 1 1 1 1 1
AUS-PERb 2 1 2 1 2 1
BEL-CHAa dnc 01 dnc 01 dnc 01
BEL-GHEa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
CAN-HALa snd 2 snd 2 snd 2
CHN-BEIa 2 1 2 1 2 1
CZE-CZEa 1 1 1 1 1 1
DEN-GLOa 1 1 1 1 1 1
FIN-KUOa 1 1 1 2 1 2
FIN-NKAa 2 2 1 2 2 2
FIN-TULa 2 2 2 2 2 2
FRA-LILa snd 2 snd 2 snd 2
FRA-STRa snd 1 snd 2 snd 2
FRA-TOUa 2 2 2 2 2 2
GER-AURa 1 1 1 1 1 1
GER-AUUa 1 1 1 2 1 2
GER-COTa 0 snd 0 snd 0 snd
GER-EGEb dnc 1 dnc 2 dnc 2
GER-ERFa 0 dnc 0 dnc 0 dnc
GER-HACb 1 snd 1 snd 1 snd
GER-KMSe 1 snd 2 snd 2 snd
RUA WAIST SCORE HIP SCORE SUMMARY SCORE
Mid Fin Mid Fin Mid Fin
ICE-ICEa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
ITA-BRIa 2 2 0 2 0 2
ITA-FRIa 1 2 1 2 1 2
LTU-KAUa dnc 2 dnc 1 dnc 2
NEZ-AUCa snd 1 snd 1 snd 1
POL-TARa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
POL-WARa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
RUS-MOCa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
RUS-MOIa dnc 0 dnc 0 dnc 0
SPA-CATa 2 2 2 2 2 2
SWE-GOTa 1 1 1 1 1 1
SWE-NSWa 2 2 2 2 2 2
SWI-TICa dnc 2 dnc 2 dnc 2
SWI-VAFa dnc 2 dnc 2 dnc 2
UNK-BELa dnc 1 dnc 1 dnc 1
UNK-GLAa 1 2 1 2 1 2
YUG-NOSa 1 1 1 1 1 1
RUA WAIST SCORE HIP SCORE SUMMARY SCORE
Mid Fin Mid Fin Mid Fin

Key: snd = survey not done, dnc = data not collected
1 More than 30% of missing data due to the fact that a large part of the subjects interviewed did not come to the physical examination.