Table 1.
Demographics of Stable Factors
| Spearman Correlation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Factors | Mean | St. d. | 1st Quartile | Median | 3rd Quartile | Skewness | Kurtosis | Entries | Per capita entries | Per capita financing | Percent minority |
| Population (in 1000) |
407.6 |
486.8 |
55.4 |
203.8 |
476.1 |
1.58 |
1.51 |
0.87** |
-0.32* |
-0.47** |
0.64** |
| Entries in to out-of-home care |
515.7 |
853.3 |
79.3 |
246.5 |
445.5 |
3.1 |
10.8 |
0.12 |
-0.46** |
0.64** |
|
| Per capita entries in to residential care (per 1000, 000 people) |
1395.5 |
865.7 |
723.2 |
1190.2 |
1724.1 |
0.91 |
-0.04 |
0.11 |
-0.15 |
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| Short-Doyle/medical penetration rate (%) |
6.98% |
2.26% |
5.26% |
6.78% |
8.23% |
0.57 |
0.12 |
-0.52* |
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| Percent minority population | 64.6%† | 21.8% | 32.2% | 53.6% | 64.7% | -0.01 | -0.89 | ||||
† : Weighted average by population size.
**: p-value <0.01; *: p-value <0.05