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Table 4 Descriptive statistics for residents, visitors, and crimes, Eastern Canadian city

From: Daily crime flows within a city

Variables Descriptions for census tract data
Median Mean Standard deviation Coefficient of variationa
Residents, 2006 % Households low income 29.2 30.1 13.4 0.44
% Families single parent 20.8 21.1 7.4 0.35
% Persons moved past 5 years 44.2 44.8 10.9 0.24
Visitors, 2008 For work 744.1 1928.4 5900.5 3.06
For shopping 255.2 598.6 1276.3 2.13
For recreation 376.4 555.5 720.1 1.30
For education 395.8 845.6 1681.5 1.99
Number of reported crimes, 2011 Violent crimes 37.0 44.4 31.9 0.71
Property crimes 137.0 182.6 193.8 1.06
  1. Base N = 506 census tracts
  2. aCoefficient of variation = standard deviation/mean