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. 2022 Jul 4;210:114–122. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.06.027

Table 1.

Bivariate Bravais–Pearson correlations and partial correlations controlling for HDI 2019 between vaccination rates and indicators of human, economic, and social capital indicators.

Variables Bivariate correlations
Partial correlations when controlling for the HDI 2019
Metric People fully vaccinated per hundred, Feb. 2022 (OWID) People fully vaccinated per hundred, July 2021 (OWID) Infants immunized for measles for 1-year olds, 2019 (HDR) Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 Metric People fully vaccinated per hundred, Feb. 2022 (OWID) Infants immunized for measles at 12 months, 2019 (%) (UNDP HDR)
People fully vaccinated per hundred, Feb. 2022 (OWID) Pearson correlation 1 0.739** 0.623** 0.847** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 x
N 146 130 142 139
People fully vaccinated per hundred, July 2021 (OWID) Pearson correlation 0.693** 1 0.404** 0.695** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 138 144 139 143
Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 Pearson correlation 0.826** 0.695** 0.622** 1 N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 145 143 147 152
Life expectancy at birth 2019 (HDI component) Pearson correlation 0.836** 0.647** 0.638** 0.923** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Component of HDI
N 146 144 148 152
Mean years of schooling 2019 (HDI component) Pearson correlation 0.688** 0.594** 0.575** 0.924** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Component of HDI
N 145 142 147 150
Expected years of schooling 2019 (HDI component) Pearson correlation 0.788** 0.643** 0.575** 0.915** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Component of HDI
N 142 139 147 147
GNI per capita 2019 in 2017 PPP (HDI component) Pearson correlation 0.706** 0.744** 0.422** 0.818** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Component of HDI
N 142 139 147 147
Inequality in life expectancy 2015–2020 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation −0.793** −0.641** −0.668** −0.936** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Collinear with HDI
N 143 140 148 148
Inequality in education 2019 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation −0.663** −0.530** −0.584** −0.847** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Collinear with HDI
N 137 135 142 143
Inequality in income 2019 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation −0.286** −0.337** −0.302** −0.378** Partial correlation 0.037 −0.099
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.683 0.266
N 126 123 130 131 df 123 127
Gini Index 2019 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation −0.298** −0.242** −0.262** −0.335** Partial correlation −0.023 −0.092
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.001 0.006 0.002 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.799 293
N 132 130 134 137 df 128 130
PISA Score for Reading 2018 (OWID) Pearson correlation 0.529** 0.428** 0.295* 0.791** Partial correlation 0.159 0.082
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.016 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.209 0.518
N 65 67 66 67 df 62 63
PISA Score for Mathematics 2018 (OWID) Pearson correlation 0.451** 0.375** 0.309* 0.748** Partial correlation 0.044 0.113
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.002 0.011 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.727 0.367
N 66 68 67 68 df 63 64
PISA Score for Science 2018 (OWID) Pearson correlation 0.513** 0.379** 0.285* 0.732** Partial correlation 0.168 0.080
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.001 0.019 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.182 0.522
N 66 68 67 68 df 63 64
World Bank - Poverty ratio Pearson correlation −0.641** −0.580** −0.560** −0.670** Partial correlation −0.225 −0.261
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.116 0.061
N 51 51 50 51 df 48 47
World Bank - National poverty ratio Pearson correlation −0.637** −0.494** −0.536** −0.705** Partial correlation −0.167 −0.213*
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.066 0.018
N 123 120 125 127 df 119 121
Extreme poverty rate (OWID) Pearson correlation −0.654** −0.468** −0.389** −0.770** Partial correlation −0.068 0.065
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.496 0.521
N 145 97 102 103 df 100 99
Corruption Perception Index CPI 2020 (Transparency International) Pearson correlation 0.689** 0.663** 0.480** 0.766** Partial correlation 0.135* −0.004
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.109 0.965
N 144 142 146 150 df 140 142
Share of people who trust their national government 2018 (OWID, from Wellcome Global Monitor) Pearson correlation 0.053 −0.069 0.182* −0.066 Partial correlation 0.217* 0.266*
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.564 0.462 0.046 0.463 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.018 0.003
N 120 116 121 124 df 117 118
Share of people who trust doctors and nurses in their country 2018 (OWID, from Wellcome Global Monitor) Pearson correlation 0.575** 0.413** 0.497** 0.536** Partial correlation 0.267* 0.272*
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.002 0.002
N 129 126 131 134 df 126 128
Health expenditure % of GDP in 2017 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation 0.348** 0.326** 0.270** 0.387** Partial correlation 0.014 0.054
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.868 0.523
N 138 136 142 144 df 135 139
Physicians per 1000 people 2019 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation 0.620** 0.576** 0.511** 0.775** Partial correlation −0.033 0.076
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.698 0.368
N 139 136 145 144 df 135 141
Hospital beds per 1000 people 2019 (HDR data set) Pearson correlation 0.394** 0.309** 0.399** 0.564** Partial correlation −0.149 0.078
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.092 0.375
N 131 128 135 134 df 127 131
Cardiovascular death rate (OWID) Pearson correlation −0.497** −0.376** −0.221** −0.410** Partial correlation −0.300** 0.055
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.008 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.520
N 145 137 142 144 df 141 138
Prevalence of diabetes (OWID) Pearson correlation 0.238** 0.120 0.125 0.269** Partial correlation 0.031 −0.056
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.004 0.165 0.139 0.001 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.714 0.509
N 144 136 141 144 df 141 138
Infants immunized for measles at 12 months, 2019 (%) (UNDP HDR) Pearson correlation 0.623** 0.404** 1 0.622** Partial correlation 0.231** N/A
Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sig. (2-tailed) 0.006
N 142 139 148 147 df 138

Partial correlations that are statistically significant for P = 5% are marked in bold.

Source: Authors' analysis on publicly available data from OWID, UNDP HDR, Transparency International, and The World Bank.

∗∗Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

∗Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).