Daily crime flows within a city

Crime Science

Table 5 Pearson’s r matrix for visitor, residential, and crime variables, Eastern Canadian city

Variables	2 Property crime	Residential variables			Visitor variables
Variables	2 Property crime	3 Low income	4 Single parent	5 Moved, 5 years	6 For work	7 For shopping	8 For recreation	9 For education
1. Violent crime	0.94	0.26	−0.03	0.30	0.82	0.72	0.92	0.51
2. Property crime		0.13	−0.14	0.23	0.95	0.86	0.90	0.47
3. Low income			0.58	0.60	0.05	0.04	0.12	0.12
4. Single parents				0.27	−0.15	−0.13	−0.12	−0.16
5. Moved 5 years					0.13	0.10	0.21	0.23
6. For work						0.92	0.81	0.32
7. For shopping							0.68	0.26
8. For recreation								0.46
9. For education

Variable 3 reports percent of households low in income in 2006
Variable 4 reports percent of families single parent in 2006
All other variables calculated as a percentage of residential population in 2011
All statistics over 0.10 in absolute value are significant at the 0.01 level
Base N = 506 census tracts

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