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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