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Table 1 Description and descriptive statistics of the inputs, outputs, efficiency and environmental variables

From: Efficiency in the governance of the Covid-19 pandemic: political and territorial factors

Variable

Description

Min

Mean

Median

Max

Standard deviation

Inputs

 Physicians

Total number of physicians per thousand inhabitantsa

0.0140

1.9042

1.6090

7.1201

1.6125

 Nurses

Total number of nurses, midwives and other associated personnel per thousand inhabitantsa

0.0737

4.5672

2.9460

19.4614

4.3775

 Hospital beds

Beds available in public and private hospitals per thousand inhabitantsa

0.1000

2.8419

2.2000

13.4000

2.3871

 Health expenditure

Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDPa

1.1812

6.5678

6.4294

17.0613

2.5149

Outputs

 Cases confirmed

Total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 per thousand inhabitants as February 1, 2021b

0.0088

20.5396

11.7416

92.5357

22.7485

 Death rate

Total number of deaths with Covid-19 per thousand confirmed cases as February 1, 2021b

0.4871

20.5774

17.7672

85.1128

12.9607

Dependent variable

 Efficiency

Own elaboration from DEA technique

0.6018

0.8965

0.9399

1.0000

0.1092

Environmental variables

 Europe

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the country belongs to the European region established by the WHO and 0 otherwiseb

0.0000

0.2968

0.0000

1.0000

0.4583

 Americas

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the country belongs to the American region established by the WHO and 0 otherwiseb

0.0000

0.1871

0.0000

1.0000

0.3913

 Asia

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the country belongs to the regions of South-East Asia and Western Pacific established by the WHO and 0 otherwiseb

0.0000

0.1226

0.0000

1.0000

0.3290

 Africa

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the country belongs to the regions of Africa and Eastern Mediterranean established by the WHO and 0 otherwiseb

0.0000

0.3935

0.0000

1.0000

0.4901

 Gender

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the government leader is a woman and 0 if it is a manc

0.0000

0.1032

0.0000

1.0000

0.3052

 Ideology

Dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the government leader’s ideology is conservative and 0 if it is progressivec

0.0000

0.4839

0.0000

1.0000

0.5014

 Voice

Quality of freedom of expression, association, media, and citizen participation in the election of government, which takes values between 0 and 100d

2.4631

48.5238

45.3202

100.0000

28.4050

 Rule of law

Society’s compliance with the rule of law, which takes values between 0 and 100d

0.4808

48.3468

46.1538

100.0000

28.6079

 Median age

Median age of the populationf

15.1510

30.5919

30.2620

48.3580

9.3129

 GDP

Forecast year-on-year change in gross domestic product at constant prices as a percentage for 2019e

−35.0000

2.5109

2.3350

9.8900

4.1384

 Tourism

Income from international tourism as a percentage of total exports in goods and servicesa

0.1888

13.7942

7.7834

85.2048

16.4688

 Unemployment

Unemployment rate forecast for 2019e

0.2950

7.1966

7.1966

28.7000

3.7324

  1. aData from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator?tab=all Accessed February, 2021
  2. bData from https://covid19.who.int/table Accessed February, 2021
  3. cOwn elaboration after consulting web information about the country
  4. dData from http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/ Accessed February, 2021
  5. eData from https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2020/October Accessed February, 2021
  6. fData from https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/ Accessed July, 2021
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