When conducting 6 simple correlations between government spending policies and Bolivia's living standards it results in a positive correlation.
All six have a positive correlation.
However when I conduct a regression with other variables Crime, Sanitation and Housing become negative:
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Coefficients
[/td]Standard Error
[/td]t Stat
[/td]P-value
[/td]Intercept
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]6.823557676[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.295532403[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]23.08903388[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.68566E-65[/TD]
Health
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]0.417455289[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.225160128[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.854037364[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.064849087[/TD]
Crime
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]-0.306447043[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.115718489[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]-2.648211587[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.00857905[/TD]
Education
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]1.072571017[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.196736177[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.451824039[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.14478E-07[/TD]
Sanitation
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]-0.472792444[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.134749317[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]-3.508681564[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.00052923[/TD]
Housing
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]-0.525306325[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.246285809[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]-2.132913497[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.033854353[/TD]
Welfare
[/td]
[TD="align: right"]0.350597928[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.169207021[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.072005789[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0.039235858[/TD]
[/TABLE]
Why is this?
Is this a problem with my regression?
Or is it simply the variables interacting with each other?