Spatio-temporal analysis of socio-economic characteristics for pulmonary tuberculosis in Sichuan province of China, 2006–2015

Table 2 The Pearson correlation coefficients of socio-economic variables in 181 counties of Sichuan province, 2006 to 2015

	The proportion of age	sex ratio (male to female)	local government finance expenditure for public health (1000 CNY)^*	PD (Population/km²)	education year (Year)	annual employment rate (Persons/household register)	NBMI per 1000 persons^a	NMW per 1000 persons^a
PGDP (1000 CNY)^a	0.49	−0.16	0.55	0.44	0.70	0.10	0.44	0.53
the proportion of age		−0.39	0.52	0.54	0.50	0.02^b	0.10	0.10
sex ratio (male to female)		1	−0.11	−0.25	− 0.15	−0.03^b	− 0.14	−0.18
local government finance expenditure for public health (1000 CNY)^a			1	0.47	0.52	0.10	0.11	0.10
PD (Population/km²)				1	0.69	0.02 ^b	0.26	0.32
education year (Year)					1	0.08	0.48	0.59
annual employment rate (Persons/household register)						1	0.15	0.14
NBMI per 1000 persons^a							1	0.90

PGDP Per gross domestic product, PD Population density, NBMI Number of beds in medical institutions, NMW Medical personnel per 1000 persons
^aThe Log-transformed was used and the distributions were not normally distributed
^bP > 0.05

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