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Table 19.4
Correlates of 2009 census tract population growth since 2000 (Dependent Variable:
Census tract proportion of city's 2009 total population)
Independent variables
National West
South
Midwest
Northeast
Distance from center (
100)
0.0034
0.0005
0.0135
0.0062
0.0000
(2.69)
(0.31)
(2.69)
(
2.48)
(0.00)
Distance squared (
10,000)
0.0108
0.0008
0.0158
0.0488
0.0025
(
1.67)
(
0.11)
(
0.52)
(2.63)
(
0.33)
% built before 1939 (in 2000)
0.0002
0.0004
0.0009
0.0003
0.0002
(
2.68)
(
2.59)
(2.57)
(
3.19)
(
3.68)
Population density 2000
(
100,000)
0.0001
0.0004
0.0078
0.0012
0.0000
(
1.73)
(
1.76)
(
7.33)
(
4.74)
(
0.67)
% vacant (2000)
0.0014
0.0044
0.0026
0.0002
0.0005
(7.06)
(8.06)
(4.09)
(0.60)
(3.10)
Prop city SFH detached 2000
0.0395
0.0212
0.0587
0.0020
0.0146
(8.35)
(1.38)
(4.14)
(0.20)
(4.90)
Prop city gay male HHs 2000
0.0055
0.0047
0.0047
0.0017
0.0110
(2.50)
(0.84)
(0.92)
(0.50)
(4.68)
Prop city lesbian HHs 2000
0.0025
0.0116
0.0047
0.0003
0.0010
(
0.86)
(
1.48)
(
0.71)
(
0.06)
(0.34)
Prop city non-family HHs 2000
0.0142
0.0381
0.0392
0.0049
0.0323
(2.70)
(
2.97)
(3.31)
(0.55)
(
5.01)
Prop city total population 2000
1.0008
1.0661
0.9948
1.0711
1.0456
(97.61)
(34.63)
(39.20)
(57.25)
(89.57)
Prop city black population 2000
0.0332
0.0022
0.0292
0.0744
0.0727
(
11.98)
(0.57)
(
4.49)
(
14.12)
(
19.45)
Prop city Hispanic
population 2000
0.0067
0.0442
0.0101
0.0022
0.0031
(
2.80)
(
5.23)
(
1.74)
(
0.70)
(
1.22)
Ratio tract med income/
city med income 2000
0.0002
0.0000
0.0002
0.0002
0.0000
(7.36)
(0.92)
(1.90)
(3.93)
(1.35)
Lambda (spatial
error coefficient)
0.3954
0.1083
0.5169
0.2342
0.2184
(30.91)
(3.29)
(22.14)
(7.98)
(8.35)
City dummies
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Pseudo R
2
0.922
0.898
0.891
0.938
0.969
N
10,450
2,290
2,444
2,524
3,192
z-score for each coefficient listed in parenthesis
paying any increasing housing prices, neighborhood median household income
relative to the city median must rise when housing prices increase. Tables
19.4
and
19.5
provide evidence on how the census tract's proportion of the city's gay
partners are related to the rate of relative increase in the population of the census
tract between 2000 and 2009 and to the rate of increase in the ratio of median census
