Sex of Plaintiffs and Sex of Defendants, Prewar Years, Civil and Criminal Cases
Association between the sex
of the plaintiff and the sex of the defendant depends strongly on the type of
the case. In civil cases, the correlation between the sex of the plaintiff and
the sex of the defendant is very small and is not statistically significant.
Women were just as likely to sue men on civil matters as men were to sue other
men. In criminal cases, correlation is still relatively weak, but is
statistically significant. Only in criminal cases, were males more likely to
sue other males and females more likely to sue other females. However, the
difference is not very strong.
Sex of the Plaintiff and
Sex of the Defendant, by Case Type, Prewar Years
|
Types of Cases |
Sex of the Defendant |
Total |
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|
Male |
Female |
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|
Civil cases |
Sex of the Plaintiff |
Male |
65 |
2 |
67 |
|
|
97.0% |
3.0% |
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|
Female |
12 |
1 |
13 |
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|
|
92.3% |
7.7% |
|
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|
Total |
77 |
3 |
80 |
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|
96.3% |
3.8% |
|
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|
Criminal cases |
Sex of the Plaintiff |
Male |
274 |
27 |
301 |
|
|
91.0% |
9.0% |
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|
Female |
45 |
16 |
61 |
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|
|
73.8% |
26.2% |
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|
Total |
319 |
43 |
362 |
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|
88.1% |
11.9% |
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Correlation between the Sex
of the Plaintiff and the Sex of the Defendant, Prewar Years
|
Types of Cases |
Value |
Asymp. Std. Error |
Approx. T |
Approx. Sig. |
|
|
Civil cases |
Spearman Correlation |
.091 |
.143 |
.811 |
.420 |
|
|
N |
80 |
|
|
|
|
Criminal Cases |
Spearman Correlation |
.200 |
.065 |
3.867 |
.000 |
|
|
N |
362 |
|
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