. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 23.

Published in final edited form as: Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009 Jul 23;10(2):101–109. doi: 10.1177/1527154409339395

Table 1.

Descriptive Values and Bivariate Associations of Nurse-to-Population Ratio (NPOP) per 1,000 people

Variables	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max	Source
NPOP	2.1	0.5	1.2	3.1	SSA
Median Income^a	92.0	20.9	52.6	140.7	INEGI
Average Education^b	7.2	0.8	5.3	8.5	INEGI
CPF	2.9	0.2	2.6	3.5	INEGI
Nursing Schools	11.2	9.0	2.0	36.0	SSA
Private Facilities	63.6	70.6	8.0	390.0	SSA
Public Facilities	545.7	382.4	115.0	1528.0	SSA
RPr-P	0.13	0.11	0.03	0.56	Own computation based on SSA data

NOTE: CPF = average number of children less than 18 years per family; RPr-P = ratio of private to public health care facilities; SSA = Secretaría de Salud y Asistencia; INEGI = Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática.

Median Income in $1,000 mexican pesos;

Average education estimated from single years of schooling.