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Table 2 Standardized Pearson’s correlations among indicators in sub-Saharan Africaa

From: Andersen’s utilization model for cataract surgical rate and empirical evidence from economically-developing areas

  CSR GDP/P
(US dollars)
Cataract surgeons per million Doctors per 1000 Ageing Proportion Male Proportion Income per capita
(US dollars)
CSR 1       
GDP/P 0.23(−0.25,0.78) 1      
Cataract surgeons per million 0.74*(0.09, 0.91) 0.29(− 0.12, 0.75) 1     
General Doctors per 1000 − 0.08(− 0.41, 0.52) 0.74*(0.30, 0.95) 0.19(− 0.21, 0.77) 1    
Ageing Proportion −0.05(− 0.51, 0.77) 0.41(− 0.23, 0.71) − 0.20(− 0.63, 0.40) 0.05(− 0.44, 0.53) 1   
Male Proportion 0.02(− 0.39, 0.43) 0.24(− 0.05, 0.67) 0.03(− 0.50, 0.48) 0.52*(0.22, 0.83) 0.04(− 0.39, 0.37) 1  
Income per capita 0.24(− 0.25, 0.78) 1.00*(0.95, 1.00) 0.31(− 0.10, 0.76) 0.72*(0.28, 0.94) 0.41(− 0.26, 0.71) 0.21(− 0.16, 0.64) 1
  1. a: 95% CI were based on 1000 bootstrap samples
  2. *: P < 0.05