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Table 1 Incidence Rate Ratios of Mass Shootings in U.S. Counties

From: Income inequality and mass shootings in the United States

 

MSA: Three or More Injuries

MSA: Four or More Deaths

Mother Jones: Four or More Deaths

USA Today: Four or More Deaths

Adj. IRR (95% CI)

Adj. IRR (95% CI)

Adj. IRR (95% CI)

Adj. IRR (95% CI)

Income inequality

1.43 (1.24, 1.66)

1.57 (1.26, 1.96)

1.43 (1.12, 1.82)

1.26 (1.04, 1.52)

Poverty rate

1.35 (0.98, 1.87)

0.97 (0.64, 1.47)

0.83 (0.47, 1.47)

1.23 (0.64, 2.34)

Unemployment rate

1.20 (1.02, 1.41)

1.15 (0.92, 1.44)

1.21 (0.92, 1.60)

1.05 (0.78, 1.41)

Population density

0.27 (0.08, 0.88)

0.22 (0.08, 0.57)

0.18 (0.06, 0.55)

0.39 (0.02, 7.39)

Young population

1.07 (0.84, 1.37)

0.99 (0.70, 1.39)

1.21 (0.89, 1.66)

1.09 (0.86, 1.39)

Minority population

6.27 (1.79, 21.99)

14.36 (5.51, 37.39)

18.01 (7.00, 46.36)

3.53 (0.68, 18.35)

HS graduation rate

0.59 (0.44, 0.78)

0.59 (0.39, 0.90)

0.57 (0.33, 0.97)

0.53 (0.36, 0.78)

2010–2015

2.81 (1.99, 3.98)

1.58 (0.98, 2.55)

1.38 (0.79, 2.42)

1.24 (0.78, 1.95)

Wald Chi-Square

92.96

56.86

50.11

24.99

AIC

1363.44

737.53

545.40

817.02

BIC

1430.88

804.97

612.84

884.46

County-Decades (N)

6273

6273

6273

6273

  1. Adj. IRR adjusted incidence rate ratio, CI confidence interval. All variables are logged and z-score standardized. Robust standard errors clustered by county reported