In ACTION, we compared co-occurrence patterns across different countries and cultures. These comparisons are somewhat hampered by the fact that in almost all cases more than one parameter varies between the different countries and cultures. For example, both NTR, a Dutch sample, and TEDs, a UK sample, have parental ratings at age 9, but NTR used the CBCL while TEDS used the SDQ. Any differences in correlations may thus be attributable to cultural differences or country differences between the Netherlands and the UK, instrument differences or any other protocol or unobserved difference. However, given all these sources of difference in this large co-occurrence study, it is even more striking that most correlations are so similar.
