The intersection of health and wealth: association between personal bankruptcy and myocardial infarction rates in Canada

Table 3 Yearly AMI and BKC rates per 1000 person-year and socio-economic characteristics. Pearson correlation coefficients and descriptive statistics for 1155 Canadian forward sortation areas

Variables	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
1. 2002 AMI rate	1
2. 2003 AMI rate	.68	1
3. 2004 AMI rate	.66	.65	1
4. 2005 AMI rate	.64	.65	.65	1
5. 2006 AMI rate	.59	.63	.64	.66	1
6. 2007 AMI rate	.55	.64	.60	.66	.67	1
7. 2008 AMI rate	.54	.54	.62	.61	.60	.65	1
8. 2009 AMI rate	.51	.55	.61	.58	.57	.65	.70	1
9. 2002 BKC rate	.29	.33	.27	.30	.25	.25	.24	.20	1
10. 2003 BKC rate	.29	.36	.25	.31	.27	.32	.26	.25	.76	1
11. 2004 BKC rate	.34	.38	.33	.35	.32	.33	.32	.31	.72	.76	1
12. 2005 BKC rate	.35	.37	.33	.35	.33	.37	.32	.31	.73	.75	.78	1
13. 2006 BKC rate	.38	.41	.37	.37	.37	.38	.35	.35	.65	.65	.72	.79	1
14. 2007 BKC rate	.33	.38	.40	.32	.36	.32	.34	.32	.57	.53	.61	.71	.74	1
15. 2008 BKC rate	.38	.42	.36	.35	.32	.37	.33	.33	.55	.53	.64	.66	.71	.73	1
16. 2009 BKC rate	.30	.35	.33	.33	.35	.33	.34	.30	.58	.56	.62	.67	.69	.73	.75	1
17. Education	−.30	−.33	−.35	−.37	−.40	−.42	−.44	−.46	−.28	−.31	−.34	−.39	−.38	−.35	−.34	−.39
18. Material wealth	−.12	−.15	−.09	−.09	−.06	−.04	−.03	.01	−.49	−.47	−.47	−.45	−.42	−.35	−.31	−.25
19. Working-age population	−.50	−.48	−.53	−.50	−.48	−.47	−.45	−.44	−.00	−.04	−.09	−.13	−.17	−.17	−.13	−.03
Mean	2.34	2.32	2.25	2.17	2.12	2.27	2.37	2.32	2.70	3.04	3.09	3.19	2.95	3.01	3.42	4.48
STD	1.18	1.14	1.16	1.15	1.13	1.15	1.16	1.17	1.59	1.70	1.69	1.82	1.71	1.85	1.97	2.32

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