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. 2023 May 16;23:897. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15853-y

Table 2.

Exposure description and correlation matrix of air pollutants at the LSOAs level (N = 42,619 LSOAs)

Pearson’s correlation coefficient
NO2 (µg/m3) SO2 (µg/m3) PM10 (µg/m3) PM2.5 (µg/m3) Mean SD Median Interquartile range
NO2 (µg/m3) 1.00 15.80 7.47 14.91 9.69
SO2 (µg/m3) 0.36 1.00 1.89 1.26 1.59 1.06
PM10 (µg/m3) 0.76 0.28 1.00 14.38 3.18 14.53 4.32
PM2.5 (µg/m3) 0.79 0.31 0.97 1.00 9.76 2.40 9.88 3.30

Strong correlations with a correlation coefficient ≥ 0.70 are highlighted in bold