Table 1.

 Descriptive Statistics on the Country Variable Potentially Influencing Health System Responsiveness

	No of Observations	Mean	Standard Deviation	Minimum	Maximum
Health exp. per capita	66	0.561	0.821	0.003	2.852
% Public exp. over total	66	0.531	0.212	6	90
% Population over 65	67	8.827	5.831	1.1	19.7
Education index	67	0.783	0.208	0.23	0.99
Upper-middle income	67	0.164	0.373	0	1
Lower-middle income	67	0.254	0.438	0	1
Low income	67	0.224	0.420	0	1
Traditional values	67	0.567	0.499	0	1
Control of corruption	67	0.159	1.031	−1.45	2.37
Democratic history	67	0.494	0.357	0	1

Note. Health expenditure per capita are expressed in 1,000 U.S.$, the percentage of public expenditures over the total health expenditures and the percentage of population over 65 are expressed as percentages and lie in the range 0–100. Control of corruption lies in the range −2.5 to 2.5 and the remaining variables lie in the range 0–1. Democratic history has been rescaled from 0–10 to 0–1.