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Table 6 Sensitivity analysis of Pearson’s r, between property crimes and visitors for work, shopping, and recreation, Eastern Canadian city

From: Daily crime flows within a city

Both variables as

Correlation between property crimes and visitors

For work

For shopping

For recreation

Counts

0.85

0.66

0.80

Square root of counts

0.80

0.63

0.75

Log of counts

0.69

0.57

0.67

Ratios to residential population

0.95

0.86

0.90

  1. Base N = 506 census tracts