Legal Residence of the Plaintiffs and the Defendants, All Years

 

Insiders, legal residents of the township where the case was heard, constituted the majority of both the plaintiffs (77.4 %) and the defendants (73.7%). However, there is a significant correlation between the residency status of the plaintiffs and the defendants. Insider plaintiffs were much more likely to sue other insiders (85% of their defendants were from the same township) than outsiders were (only 32% of defendants were insiders when the plaintiff was an outsider).

 

 

Legal Residence of the Plaintiffs and the Defendants, All Years

 

 

 

Defendant's Legal Residence

Total

 

 

Inside Township

Outside Township

 

 

Plaintiff's Legal Residence

 

 

 

Inside Township

358

85.6%

60

14.4%

418

77.4%

 

 

 

Outside Township

 

40

32.8%

82

67.2%

 

122

22.6%

 

 

Total

398

73.7%

142

26.3%

540

 

 

 

 

Correlation between the Legal Residence of Plaintiffs and Defendants, All Years

 

 

Value

 

Asymp. Std. Error

 

Approx. T

 

Approx. Sig.

 

 

Spearman Correlation

 

N

 

 

0.502

 

540

 

0.043

13.467

.000