Interobserver reliability of the ‘Welfare Quality® Animal Welfare Assessment Protocol for Growing Pigs’

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Table 2 Mean values [mm] of the two observers for the adjectives of the Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) as well as the mean of the weighted sum and corresponding reliability parameters

Adjective	Observer A	Observer BC	RS	ICC	SDC	LoA
Active	87.1	65.9	0.50	0.30	0.38	−0.05 to 0.45
Relaxed	49.2	43.2	0.61	0.64	0.32	−0.28 to 0.41
Fearful	14.6	10.4	0.06	0.00	0.26	−0.20 to 0.30
Agitated	41.2	28.2	0.64	0.40	0.39	−0.25 to 0.49
Calm	42.3	44.9	0.15	0.70	0.28	−0.40 to 0.23
Content	55.0	49.9	0.35	0.36	0.25	−0.21 to 0.30
Tense	33.5	18.2	0.45	0.23	0.37	−0.12 to 0.48
Enjoying	33.3	76.7	0.15	0.21	0.27	−0.40 to 0.22
Frustrated	18.9	12.0	0.43	0.22	0.25	−0.10 to 0.35
Bored	17.1	17.8	0.15	0.36	0.28	−0.32 to 0.30
Playful	24.4	29.8	0.28	0.36	0.32	−0.40 to 0.33
Positively occupied	61.6	96.3	0.43	0.26	0.34	−0.15 to 0.45
Listless	16.3	9.3	0.19	0.26	0.26	−0.21 to 0.31
Lively	54.5	62.2	0.56	0.00	0.49	−0.48 to 0.40
Indifferent	18.1	28.9	0.40	0.38	0.31	−0.35 to 0.38
Irritable	25.1	13.8	0.35	0.26	0.31	−0.12 to 0.42
Aimless	25.6	18.5	0.04	0.38	0.34	−0.25 to 0.43
Happy	46.5	50.1	0.04	0.19	0.25	−0.32 to 0.20
Distressed	7.8	9.7	0.10	0.24	0.21	−0.23 to 0.17
Sociable	66.4	58.9	0.30	0.20	0.31	−0.28 to 0.39
Weighted sum	−0.80	−0.48	0.62	0.62	0.11	−0.11 to 0.09

RS Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient, ICC Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, SDC Smallest Detectable Change, LoA Limits of Agreement