SEX & RACE VARIABLES
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Downtown Manhattan is home to Chelsea and Greenwich Village, two long time gay neighborhoods. Thus the strength of the correlation coefficient of 0.412 when looking at the male percentage of the population make sense. The more males make up the population of a zip code downtown the higher the AIDS rate. This indicates that AIDS is a male focused problem downtown, most likely affecting only gay men. Race does not seem to play a major factor in Downtown Manhattan as the correlation coefficients for the white and black percentages of the population were -0.085 and .370, respectively. In addition both the Hispanic and Asian populations drew low correlation coefficients.
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| Looking at the data for Uptown a new pattern of AIDS patients begins to appear. While the correlation coefficient for the male percentage of the population is too low at .148 to show any dramatic sex patterns, race appears to be playing a large role. The correlation coefficient for % of People of Black/African-American Background is .816, clearly demonstrating the huge presence of AIDS in the black community. Uptown neighborhoods such as Washington Heights and Harlem are predominantly black and as a result are right along the trend line, indicating the issue of high AIDS numbers among the black community (Map 3). Meanwhile the correlation coefficient for AIDS rates in relation to the white populations is –. 626, indicating a negative relationship between AIDS rates and the white population. |