Our results showed that the characteristics of the Norwegian STEC isolates were in concordance with data from other countries.
Concordance may be higher in countries where more abbreviated occupational scales are used, such as the United Kingdom (professional; managerial and technical; skilled; partly skilled; unskilled).
In addition, data were collected in four different rural districts within two countries with considerable concordance of findings suggesting that these results may be generalizable to other similar rural resource-poor settings.
A review by Dheda et al. assessing IGRA and TST utility in high burden vs. low burden settings concluded that agreement between IGRAs and the TST depends on the BCG vaccination status of individuals in low burden countries, whereas the concordance of IGRAs with TST is modest to good and not clearly associated with BCG vaccination status in high burden settings [ 6].
The concordance of item calibrations by country was assessed through an Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) [ 15].
We interpreted factor 2 as " Responsibility for adaptation to the negotiation of values", because it comprised items related to the values of the host country and gender concordance.
In concordance with research from other Western countries, use of ADs was low among those with 12-month MDD.
However, as mentioned earlier poor concordance was reported in two other countries, so it is likely that this is a true phenomenon.
On the other hand, studies conducted in several countries have revealed that concordance for the disease among monozygotic twins does not exceed 50%%, as it would be expected if T1D were to be caused by genetic factors alone [ 6, 7].
Since concordance depends on prevalence, values from developed countries are lower than those from high incidence developing countries and are difficult to compare [ 14- 18].
ECVET aims to facilitate mobility in vocational education and training, allowing young people to transfer learning results from one country to another in concordance with national regulations [ 27].
