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Table 1 Overview of main variables

From: Islamist insurgency and the war against polio: a cross-national analysis of the political determinants of polio

 

Observations

Mean

Standard deviation

Minimum

Maximum

Polio cases (absolute)

1920

6.471

58.058

0

1122

Polio cases (3 year mean)

1920

6.387

50.153

0

911.333

Islamist insurgency

1920

.030

.171

0

1

All Insurgency

1920

.108

.311

0

1

Non-Islamist insurgency

1920

.139

.346

0

1

GDP per capita (000)

1895

11.648

17.504

.108

113.739

Total population (log)

1920

15.639

1.928

11.378

21.060

Infant Mortality Rate

1910

31.894

28.738

1.7

134.4

Rural population %

1820

44.664

23.672

0

91.077

Polio in previous year (log)

1920

.239

.931

0

7.378

  1. We all include all countries with a population > 100,000 for the period 2003–2012