Volume 27, Number 7—July 2021
Dispatch
Assessing Community Vulnerability over 3 Waves of COVID-19 Pandemic, Hong Kong, China
Table 2
Pearson correlations of indicator, domain, and overall community vulnerability index with coronavirus disease confirmed cases across 3 pandemic waves, as of August 31, 2020, Hong Kong
Domains and indicators | Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Overall |
---|---|---|---|---|
Overall index |
0.31 |
−0.49* |
0.77‡ |
0.71† |
Socioeconomic status | 0.01 | −0.59* | 0.68† | 0.58* |
Poverty | 0.26 | −0.43 | 0.75‡ | 0.71† |
Unemployment | −0.10 | −0.64† | 0.50* | 0.38 |
Income | 0.02 | −0.65† | 0.60b | 0.48* |
Educational level |
−0.06 |
−0.70† |
0.64† |
0.51* |
Household composition | 0.14 | −0.51* | 0.57* | 0.49* |
Persons >65 years of age | 0.59* | 0.09 | 0.30 | 0.37 |
Persons <14 years of age | −0.36 | −0.48* | −0.11 | −0.25 |
Single-parent households | 0.25 | −0.44 | 0.73† | 0.68† |
Elderly living alone | −0.09 | −0.28 | 0.45 | 0.41 |
Housing condition | 0.16 | −0.42 | 0.49* | 0.43 |
Household density | 0.07 | −0.20 | −0.01 | −0.05 |
Area of accommodation |
0.08 |
−0.32 |
0.65† |
0.62† |
Healthcare system factors | 0.48* | −0.07 | 0.47 | 0.50* |
Hospital beds | 0.45 | −0.33 | 0.59* | 0.57* |
ICU beds | 0.41 | 0.16 | 0.39 | 0.47 |
Hospital labor |
0.50* |
−0.01 |
0.37 |
0.41 |
Epidemiologic factors | 0.45 | −0.37 | 0.68† | 0.66† |
Population density | 0.45 | 0.17 | 0.51* | 0.60† |
Obesity | 0.43 | −0.32 | 0.53* | 0.51* |
Hypertension | 0.54* | 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.46 |
Smoking | −0.06 | −0.51* | 0.19 | 0.08 |
Employed in transportation sector | −0.22 | −0.71† | 0.26 | 0.10 |
Employed in accommodation and food catering sectors | −0.02 | −0.51* | 0.48* | 0.39 |
Working outside residency district | −0.10 | −0.56* | 0.59* | 0.49* |
Entertainment venues | 0.34 | 0.63† | 0.04 | 0.21 |
Non–Chinese ethnicities | 0.002 | 0.66† | −0.71† | −0.60† |
*p<0.05 †p<0.01 ‡p<0.001