The Cold Hard Facts About AIDS in Connecticut
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Correlations Between Household-Type/Education and AIDS Rate |
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After researching the impact that race had on the AIDS rate, I decided to investigate the other major group affected by the virus – the intravenous drug users. In order to prove that certain areas were more likely to maintain higher rates of AIDS cases because they were sites of a great deal of drug use, I attempted to correlate factors commonly associated with drug use.
I looked at the percentage of unmarried partner households, the percentage of the population that worked at home, the percentage of the population with a bachelor’s degree, and the percentage without a high school degree. I hypothesized that the portion of the population that participated in intravenous drug use was less likely to work at home or have attained a bachelor’s degree. Similarly, I conjectured that they were more likely to have dropped out of school before receiving their diploma and to currently live in unmarried partner households.
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After calculating the correlations, I found that my assumptions were indeed correct. The percentages of unmarried partner households and of persons without a high school degree positively correlated with the AIDS rate
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... while the percentages of persons that worked at home and that had their BA correlated negatively with the AIDS rate.
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