Relationship between animal-based on-farm indicators and meat inspection data in pigs

Table 1 Percent agreement (PA), Cohen’s kappa coefficient (k) and prevalence-adjusted bias-adjusted Kappa (PABAK) indicating poor (normal type), acceptable (italic type) and good agreement (bold type) for the comparisons of the on-farm and slaughterhouse indices for the different production stages (assessments (a) used in brackets) and four (4weeks) or eight (8weeks) before slaughtering

Production stage	Limb health			Other organ health			Respiratory health
Production stage	PA	k	PABAK	PA	k	PABAK	PA	k	PABAK
Farrowing (a1-a4)	0.94	0.02	0.53	0.94	0.02	0.53	0.80	0.02	0.60
Rearing (a5-a12)	0.96	0.06	0.05	0.95	0.01	0.06	0.85	0.05	0.15
Fattening (a13-a30)	0.94	0.09	0.46	0.93	0.03	0.45	0.90	0.02	0.40
Fattening (4weeks)	0.93	0.12	0.53	0.93	0.03	0.53	0.91	0.01	0.54
Fattening (8weeks)	0.93	0.09	0.06	0.93	0.03	0.06	0.91	0.00	0.09

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