Citizenship

Despite there being no significant correlation between median income and the AIDS rate in New York City, it could be associated to other correlations. Looking at income values and knowing that uptown is home to public housing (including Harlem River Houses, the Robert F. Wagner Houses, the Dyckman Houses, and the Carver Houses) there is a large immigrant contingency. In order to compare correlation rates among immigrants and New York City born population, the immigrant population was divided into five groups: people born in the US islands, people born in Puerto Rico, people born in the States but to foreign parents, naturalized citizens, and non-citizens. Since Spanish Harlem is included in the zip codes looked out, it was assumed that there would be a correlation between Puerto Rican immigrants and the AIDS rate. This is not true; the correlation value is |0.299| for Puerto Ricans (Ref Table 12). This is also surprising because the education rates, while there was no correlation for Hispanics, showed overall the percent of Hispanic men and women graduation rates are lower than for Blacks. The strongest correlation, with a value of |0.914| (Ref Table 12), is for those born to foreign parents. The correlation rates among naturalized citizens and non-citizens were the next strongest with values of |0.910|(Ref Table 12) and |0.895| (Ref Table 12) respectively. There is a value of |0.610| for the correlation between immigrants born in the US islands. Interestingly, the correlation between the percent of people born in New York City and the AIDS rate of infection is |0.876| (Ref Table 12). However, the percent of people born in New York City includes the number of people born to foreign parents, so this correlation value could be skewed. It was expected that the immigrant values would be greater than for those born in New York City, but the available numbers show that they are close to equal.