Table 2.

Spearman rank-order correlation coefficients for reported dog bite rate and 4 measures of enforcement and resourcing

	Licensing rate	Budget rate	Staffing rate	Reported dog bite rate
Ticketing rate	0.59b n = 27	0.34 n = 23	0.38 n = 27	0.86c n = 18
Licensing rate		0.61c n = 29	0.54c n = 35	0.82c n = 21
Budget rate			0.50b n = 29	0.63b n = 19
Staffing rate				0.44a n = 21

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.