Table 3.
Spearman's rank correlation coefficients for the relationships between giardiasis rates and land-use factors
| Health Planning Region | Correlation and (p-value) | ||||
| aCDAL | bCDPL | cLDAL | dLDPL | ePMA | |
| All Regions | f0.11 (0.007) | 0.018 (0.673) | g0.079 (0.064) | 0.0009 (0.983) | f0.089 (0.037) |
| Central West | f0.299 (0.05) | f0.382 (0.013) | g0.262 (0.093) | f0.328 (0.034) | f0.311 (0.045) |
| South West | f0.167 (0.019) | 0.055 (0.440) | 0.108 (0.128) | 0.026 (0.719) | f0.166 (0.019) |
| North | 0.007 (0.969) | 0.130 (0.511) | 0.033 (0.862) | 0.097 (0.607) | 0.011 (0.953) |
| Central East | 0.091 (0.41) | 0.010 (0.927) | 0.085 (0.440) | 0.016 (0.882) | 0.084 (0.442) |
| Central South | 0.168 (0.422) | 0.006 (0.979) | 0.119 (0.556) | 0.244 (0.261) | 0.263 (0.186) |
| East | 0.026 (0.735) | 0.029 (0.708) | 0.046 (0.560) | 0.017 (0.830) | 0.037 (0.652) |
| Toronto | - | - | - | - | - |
a Cattle density (per hectare of agricultural land) b Cattle density (per hectare of pastureland) c Livestock density (per hectare of agricultural land) d Livestock density (per hectare of pastureland) e Proportion of agricultural land on which manure was applied. f Significant correlations at 5% significance level g Significant correlations at 10% significance level