A reliability assessment of a direct-observation park evaluation tool: the Parks, activity and recreation among kids (PARK) tool

Table 3 Inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s kappa) by domain

Domain	# Items	Average Kappa	Highest Kappa	Lowest Kappa	# Items ≥ 0.40 Kappa	% Items ≥ 0.40 Kappa
Activities	55	0.65	1.00	0.10	38	84 %
Environmental Quality	11	0.63	1.00	0.22	10	91 %
Services	12	0.80	0.92	0.67	11	100 %
Safety	6	0.58	0.65	0.45	6	100 %
General Impression	6	0.47	0.59	0.35	4	67 %
Overall	90	0.63	0.83	0.36	69	88 %

Note 1: 2 items are text items not included in this table
Note 2: 10 items in the Activities domain and 1 item in the Services domain did not have enough response variation to calculate Cohen’s kappa

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