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Table 2 Stability of self-rated health, physical health, multiple risk behaviors and food insecurity status, Jimma Longitudinal Family Survey of Youth, Southwest Ethiopia

From: The effect of food insecurity on health status of adolescents in Ethiopia: longitudinal study

Variables

Time1a

Time2a

Time3a

Kappab

ICCc

Poor SRH

0.19(.39)

0.35(.47)

0.37(.48)

0.12

0.14

Physical Health

3.40(1.80)

1.54(2.02)

0.99(1.69)

0.14

0.10

Multiple risk behaviors

0.46(0.65)

0 .45(.62)

0.55(.85)

0.07

0.13

Feeling tired

0.38(.48)

0.21(.40)

0.19(.39)

0.06

0.13

Had a difficulty/lack energy

0.32(.47)

0.16(.37)

0.14(.35)

0.12

0.13

Illness in the last 1 month

0 .26(.44)

0.14(.35)

0.12(.32)

0.03

0.04

Food insecure

0.20(.40)

0.48(.49)

0.20(.40)

0.10

0.13

  1. SRH Self-Rated Health, ICC Intra cluster correlation
  2. acell entries depicts means and standard deviations in parentheses
  3. bKappa coefficient for each measure
  4. cIntra class correlation coefficient (Rho) for each measure.