Table 2.

Basic descriptive statistics of all variables in the study in the period 1961 to 2008

Name	Labels	Maximum	Minimum	Net change
y1	number of physicians	20668	4618	3.24
y2	number of nurses	42480	6422	4.10
x1	population size number of inhabitants	7897937	6678239	0.20
x2	GDP value in real prices	48857	13662	2.75
x3	number of inpatient care discharges (in thousands)	1214	379	2.51
x4	number of outpatient care visits (in thousands)	50261	21849	1.20
x5	number of students enrolled at the first year of medical studies (at state faculties)	3946	945	1.35
x6	number of graduated medical doctors (at state faculties)	1724	553	1.68