Table 2 Descriptive statistics for the 10 cities and corresponding LUR models.
City, Province | 1991 Populationa (n) | 1991 Population densitya (people/km2) | Date of sampling (2-week period) | Samplers (n) | Model R2 | Spatial resolution of LUR (m) | Distribution of NO 2 across LUR (p.p.b.) | Temperatue 1991–2006 (°C) | Life expectancy in years, by Health Region 1996 b | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Minimum | Mean | Maximum | Inter-quartile range | Mean | SD | ||||||||
Edmonton, Alberta | 839,924 | 88.1 | February and May 2008 | 50 | 0.81 | 5 | 0.0 | 10.2 | 28.0 | 6.9 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 79.1 |
Hamilton, Ontario | 599,760 | 441.5 | October 2002 | 107 | 0.76 | 25 | 7.5 | 10.3 | 26.9 | 2.1 | 8.3 | 0.9 | 78.0 |
London, Ontario | 381,522 | 181.2 | June 2010 | 50 | 0.78 | 5 | 2.6 | 4.7 | 18.9 | 1.3 | 8.3 | 0.9 | 78.4 |
Montreal, Quebec | 3,127,242 | 891.2 | December 2005, May and August 2006 | 133 | 0.80 | 5 | 4.3 | 11.3 | 37.4 | 3.7 | 6.5 | 1.0 | 78.1 |
Sarnia, Ontario | 87,870 | 176.2 | October 2005 | 39 | 0.79 | 50 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 16.5 | 4.4 | 8.8 | 0.8 | 78.6 |
Toronto, Ontario | 3,893,046 | 697.2 | September 2002 and May 2004 | 95 | 0.70 | 5 | 5.7 | 17.6 | 60.4 | 7.7 | 8.9 | 0.9 | 79.3 |
Vancouver, British Columbia | 1,602,502 | 575.1 | April 2010 | 116 | 0.63 | 10 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 29.5 | 4.9 | 10.4 | 0.5 | 78.5 |
Victoria, British Columbia | 287,897 | 454.5 | June 2006 | 42 | 0.61 | 10 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 25.2 | 3.7 | 11.4 | 0.5 | 79.7 |
Windsor, Ontario | 262,075 | 304.2 | February, May, August, and October 2004 | 54 | 0.77 | 66 | 6.2 | 10.4 | 27.3 | 4.1 | 10.1 | 0.9 | 77.9 |
Winnipeg, Manitoba | 652,354 | 198.0 | November 2007, March and June 2008 | 50 | 0.84 | 5 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 18.5 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 78.1 |
