Table 3.
Country and region classification based on the correlation between park visitor numbers and COVID-19 daily increase in cases
| Significant negative correlation | Significant positive correlation | Pearson correlation | No significant correlation | Pearson correlation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very strong (0.8 − 1) | Pearson correlation | Strong (0.60– 0.79) | Pearson correlation | Moderate (0.40– 0.59) | Pearson correlation | Weak (0.20–0.39) | Pearson correlation | ||||
| Italy | − 0.815** | Austria | − 0.655** | Argentina | − 0.521** | Australia | − 0.251* | Denmark | 0.397** | Canada | − 0.004 |
| Singapore | − 0.880** | France | − 0.614** | Belgium | − 0.464** | Bolivia | − 0.373** | Finland | 0.365** | Ecuador | − 0.187 |
| Mexico | − 0.613** | Colombia | − 0.419** | Brazil | − 0.362** | Sweden | 0.630** | Germany | − 0.037 | ||
| Panama | − 0.739** | India | − 0.598** | Chile | − 0.355** | Japan | − 0.039 | ||||
| Philippines | − 0.619** | Indonesia | − 0.585** | Egypt | − 0.361** | Mongolia | 0.119 | ||||
| Portugal | − 0.683** | Kenya | − 0.480** | Hong Kong | − 0.359** | Netherland | − 0.003 | ||||
| Romania | − 0.700** | Malaysia | − 0.504** | Hungary | − 0.288** | Norway | − 0.041 | ||||
| Saudi Arabia | − 0.607** | New Zealand | − 0.476** | Ireland | − 0.246* | Poland | − 0.144 | ||||
| Spain | − 0.723** | Nigeria | − 0.517** | Thailand | − 0.371** | Taiwan | 0.041 | ||||
| Peru | − 0.434** | UK | − 0.322** | Vietnam | − 0.139 | ||||||
| South Africa | − 0.416** | ||||||||||
| South Korea | − 0.418** | ||||||||||
| United States | − 0.405** | ||||||||||
* indicates P ≤ 0.05; ** indicates P ≤ 0.01