Table 3

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients for the relationships between giardiasis rates and land-use factors

Health Planning Region
Correlation and (p-value)



aCDAL
bCDPL
cLDAL
dLDPL
ePMA

All Regions
f0.11 (0.007)
0.018 (0.673)
g0.079 (0.064)
0.0009 (0.983)
f0.089 (0.037)
Central West
f0.299 (0.05)
f0.382 (0.013)
g0.262 (0.093)
f0.328 (0.034)
f0.311 (0.045)
South West
f0.167 (0.019)
0.055 (0.440)
0.108 (0.128)
0.026 (0.719)
f0.166 (0.019)
North
0.007 (0.969)
0.130 (0.511)
0.033 (0.862)
0.097 (0.607)
0.011 (0.953)
Central East
0.091 (0.41)
0.010 (0.927)
0.085 (0.440)
0.016 (0.882)
0.084 (0.442)
Central South
0.168 (0.422)
0.006 (0.979)
0.119 (0.556)
0.244 (0.261)
0.263 (0.186)
East
0.026 (0.735)
0.029 (0.708)
0.046 (0.560)
0.017 (0.830)
0.037 (0.652)
Toronto
-
-
-
-
-

a Cattle density (per hectare of agricultural land) b Cattle density (per hectare of pastureland) c Livestock density (per hectare of agricultural land) d Livestock density (per hectare of pastureland) e Proportion of agricultural land on which manure was applied. f Significant correlations at 5% significance level g Significant correlations at 10% significance level

Odoi et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:11   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-11

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