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intercorrelated, and that literacy rate appears with the strongest and most significant Pearson correlation with the aforementioned homicide rate (DV). Hence, for the sake of explanatory parsimony, only literacy rate 2011 is specified into the equation, even as the same, given said intercorrelatedness, also serves as the proxy for both the unemployment and poverty rates. These 2011 literacy rate data are retrieved on 22 January 2013from “List of countries by literacy rates,” http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate. Homicide rate is likewise theorized to be a function of the extent of income inequality that obtains in the population. For this purpose, the 2011 gini coefficients (including those of earlier years since 1995) are used to serve as the variate values of this IV or regressor. These data are retrieved on 22 January 2013 from the website “List of countries by income equality,” http:// www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality. In a country where the rule of law abides and where he who commits a crime is most likely to be promptly and justly prosecuted, convicted, and punished--the incidence of criminality, especially that of violent crimes, is expected to be low. Hence, the IV or regressor rule of law 2011 is included in the equation. The 2011 data for this IV or regressor are retrieved on 22 January 2013 from “Rule of Law,” The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) Project, http://www.info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp. The form of government is also expected to relate to the incidence of violent crimes (homicide) especially in respect to the belief that countries that are governed by nondemocratic or dictatorial rulers have a lower incidence of such crimes. The data for this IV or regressor are retrieved on 21 January 2013 from the website “List of countries by system of government,” http:// www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of_government. The forms of government are coded as follows: 1 = full presidential, with or without prime minister; 2 = semi-presidential and mixed republic; 3 = parliamentary and constitutional monarchy; and 4 = non-democratic.