Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficients between official crime rates and crime perception

	Total sample	By gender		By age		By education
		Male	Female	≥57 years old	< 57 years old	Low	Middle	High
Thefts	0.40	0.62a	0.44a	0.46	0.41	0.36	0.45	0.38
Burglary	0.38	0.57	0.29	0.32	0.43	0.52	0.78	0.28
Violent crime	0.59	0.82a	0.57a	0.55	0.63	0.47	0.91	0.67
Traffic accidents/nuisance	0.14	0.46	−0.01	0.05	0.26	0.03	0.17	0.03
Nuisance claims	0.34	0.48	0.27	0.42	0.27	0.41	0.35	0.19
Vandalism claims	0.27	0.50	0.13	0.38	0.23	0.55a	0.75a	0.10a

^aStatistically significant differences between the subgroups