Table 4.

Correlation Matrix of Quantitative Variables

	SES	FA	SA	NA	ARS	Crime	UAD	I/III Dist	Density	DRC	MA	% Sch	% Pov	% Rep	% Ed Exp.	Ed Exp
Socio-economic status (SES)	1	0.08	0	0.01	−0.04	0.07	−0.17	0.01	0.01	−0.19	0.15	0.11	−0.38	−0.03	−0.08	0.16
Family attachment(FA)	0.08	1	0.41	0.18	0.04	−0.06	−0.06	−0.03	0.04	0	0.04	0.05	0	0.09	0.03	0.03
School attachment(SA)	0	0.41	1	0.17	−0.02	−0.11	0	0.01	−0.04	0.03	0.01	0.03	−0.02	0.03	−0.02	−0.02
Neighborhood attachment(NA)	0.01	0.18	0.17	1	−0.05	−0.09	0.02	−0.14	−0.08	−0.01	0.01	0.06	0	0.08	0	0.04
Average racial segregation(ARS)	−0.04	0.04	−0.02	−0.05	1	0.25	0.06	−0.03	0.22	−0.04	−0.18	0.06	0.27	0.08	−0.01	−0.37
Crime	0.07	−0.06	−0.11	−0.09	0.25	1	0.06	−0.01	0.17	0.39	−0.01	0.21	0.23	−0.08	−0.1	−0.04
Urban area distance (UAD)	−0.17	−0.06	0	0.02	0.06	0.06	1	−0.01	−0.12	0.28	0.06	0.15	0.34	0.04	−0.03	−0.41
WI and WIII distance	0.01	−0.03	0.01	−0.14	−0.03	−0.01	−0.01	1	0	0.04	−0.07	−0.03	−0.07	−0.06	−0.02	−0.01
Density	0.01	0.04	−0.04	−0.08	0.22	0.17	−0.12	0	1	−0.04	−0.15	−0.06	0.04	−0.17	−0.06	−0.03
Dispersion in race (DRC)	−0.19	0	0.03	−0.01	−0.04	0.39	0.28	0.04	−0.04	1	0.05	0.09	0.46	−0.08	0.03	−0.19
Median Age(MA)	0.15	0.04	0.01	0.01	−0.18	−0.01	0.06	−0.07	−0.15	0.05	1	0.23	−0.22	−0.2	0.03	0.04
% School	0.11	0.05	0.03	0.06	0.06	0.21	0.15	−0.03	−0.06	0.09	0.23	1	−0.02	−0.02	−0.03	−0.11
% below Poverty	−0.38	0	−0.02	0	0.27	0.23	0.34	−0.07	0.04	0.46	−0.22	−0.02	1	0.1	0.22	−0.21
% voting republican	−0.03	0.09	0.03	0.08	0.08	−0.08	0.04	−0.06	−0.17	−0.08	−0.2	−0.02	0.1	1	0.2	0.02
% Ed Expenditures	−0.08	0.03	−0.02	0	−0.01	−0.1	−0.03	−0.02	−0.06	0.03	0.03	−0.03	0.22	0.2	1	0.37
Per capita Ed Expenditures	0.16	0.03	−0.02	0.04	−0.37	−0.04	−0.41	−0.01	−0.03	−0.19	0.04	−0.11	−0.21	0.02	0.37	1