Table 4.

Spearman's rank correlation analysis by Remoteness Area and Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) region (ABS, 2018) in New South Wales, Australia, between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016. Coefficients and P values were calculated between the number of fox or wild dog reports, and the number of reported canine parvovirus cases per NSW postcode. There were no wild dog reports within the Illawarra region between 2011 and 2016.

Variable	Category	n	Fox		Wild Dog
			${\mathit{r}}_{\mathit{SP}}$	P	${\mathit{r}}_{\mathit{SP}}$	P
SA4 Region	Capital Region	36	0.345	0.039	-0.015	0.93
	Central Coast	10	0.42	0.227	0.338	0.34
	Central West	42	0.284	0.069	0.295	0.057
	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	12	0.534	0.074	0.372	0.234
	Far West & Orana	29	0.259	0.175	0.083	0.668
	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	25	0.139	0.508	0.178	0.394
	Illawarra	18	-0.167	0.507	−	−
	Mid North Coast	23	0.532	0.009	0.607	0.002
	Murray	29	-0.164	0.394	0.078	0.686
	New England & North West	43	0.415	0.006	-0.37	0.812
	Newcastle & Lake Macquarie	31	-0.0072	0.701	-0.066	0.723
	Richmond - Tweed	21	0.251	0.273	0.346	0.125
	Riverina	28	0.368	0.054	0.068	0.732
	Southern Highlands & Shoalhaven	9	0.311	0.415	0.295	0.442
	Sydney	249	-0.048	0.447	0.036	0.567
Remoteness Area	City	304	-0.074	0.198	0.150	0.009
	Regional	280	0.227	<0.001	0.143	0.016
	Remote	21	0.278	0.222	0.103	0.658