Table 1 Data, their sources and simple correlation coefficients for T versus both non-shock measures and changes in measures of urban performance following the recent economic recession

From: Quantifying urban economic resilience through labour force interdependence

   

Simple correlation coefficient. of T versus:

MSA-level data (N=364)

Source#

Years covered

Change* in performance after 3 years

Change* in performance after 6 years

Non-shock performance

Labour data

 Occupational counts

BLS

2005–2013

Measures of economic performance

 Per capita nominal personal income

BEA

2005–2012

−0.35

−0.21

0.41

 Per capita real GDP

BEA

2005–2012

−0.11

−0.05

0.56

 Annualized home purchase index

FHFA

2005–2013

−0.20

−0.18

0.15

 Employment rate

BLS

2005–2013

−0.17

−0.11

−0.04

 Per capita real personal income

BEA

2008–2012

0.30

 Annual real wages per job

BEA

2008–2012

0.56

Other demographic measures

 Population

CB1

2005–2013

0.12

0.39

 Weighted population density

CB2

2010

0.44

  1. #Explanation of data sources:
  2. BLS—US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, 2014).
  3. BEA—US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA, 2014).
  4. FHFA—US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA, 2014).
  5. CB1—US Census Bureau (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014b).
  6. CB2—US Census Bureau (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014a).
  7. *Calculated only for variables that had both 2006 and 2009 data.
  8. The datasets that were analysed from the above sources are available in the Dataverse repository (Shutters S, Muneepeerakul R, Lobo J, 2015).