Relationships between deprivation and duration of children's emergency admissions for breathing difficulty, feverish illness and diarrhoea in North West England: an analysis of hospital episode statistics

Table 4 Kendall's tau_b correlations between emergency admission rate (EAR) for children under 15 and children under 1 and Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2007 and Child Well-being (CWI) 2009

		IMD	CWI Quintile 5 (lowest well-being)
		Average Score	Material	Education	Crime	Housing	Environment	Children in Need (CiN)
EAR (0-14 y) (days)	0 to 3	0.42	0.29	0.47	0.42	0.42	0.11	0.38
		p = 0.089	p = 0.245	p = 0.060	p = 0.089	p = 0.089	p = 0.655	p = 0.128
	4 or more	0.64	0.51	0.51	0.56	0.38	0.60	0.51
		p = 0.009**	p = 0.040*	p = 0.040*	p = 0.025*	p = 0.128	p = 0.016*	p = 0.040*
	All LOS	0.54	0.41	0.58	0.54	0.54	0.23	0.49
		p = 0.031*	p = 0.106	p = 0.020*	p = 0.031*	p = 0.031*	p = 0.369	p = 0.048*
EAR (< 1 y) (days)	0 to 3	0.29	0.16	0.33	0.20	0.20	0.07	0.24
		p = 0.245	p = 0.531	p = 0.180	p = 0.421	p = 0.421	p = 0.788	p = 0.325
	4 or more	0.60	0.47	0.56	0.51	0.16	0.56	0.47
		p = 0.016*	p = 0.060	p = 0.025*	p = 0.040*	p = 0.531	p = 0.025*	p = 0.060
	All LOS	0.33	0.20	0.38	0.33	0.33	0.11	0.29
		p = 0.180	p = 0.421	p = 0.128	p = 0.180	p = 0.180	p = 0.655	p = 0.245

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