Crime and Recreation in Cities

Find the correlation of crime and recreation in western cities.
Problem

In a study to investigate the prevalence of relationships between different socioeconomic factors, 52 western cities were rated by nine criteria: climate terrain, housing, health care environment, crime, transportation, education, arts, recreation, and economics. For housing and crime, the lower the rating score, the better. For the remaining seven criteria, the higher the score, the better.
Find the correlation of crime and recreation for this sample data. Based on your value for the Pearson correlation coefficient, would you describe the linear relationship between crime and recreation as strong or weak, positive or negative?
Sample Data

The Westernrates data set contains data about ratings on nine criteria (climate and terrain, housing, health care and environment, crime, transportation, education, arts, recreation, and economics) for 52 western cities.