Family Composition
Family composition is yet another factor that is often considered when discussing AIDS because of the prevalence of the virus in the homosexual populations. Because higher rates tend to fall in neighborhoods with high gay populations, it is necessary to look at family classifications such as non-family households. With a confidence of over 97.5 %, the relationship between percent of non family households correlate and AIDS and HIV/AIDS rates are clearly significant (4).
The correlation coefficient of AIDS rate and percent of non-family households is .5137 and with the HIV/AIDS rate is .4834. These numbers are interesting because it is the first instance that the AIDS rate has a higher correlation than that of the HIV/AIDS rate, which potentially indicates that the numbers are determined by the homosexual population because AIDS is an older disease. AIDS occurs after HIV is formed and because homosexuals were hit by the first wave of HIV infections in America, the infection has progressed more. The correlations concerning the percent of family households are the only coefficients that decrease when Edgewater is not included. The correlation coefficient of the AIDS rate decreases from .5150 to .3855 and the HIV/AIDS rate coefficient decrease from .4834 to .3514.