The World Bank collected data on the percentage of GDP that acountry spends on health expenditures ("Health expenditure," 2013)and also the percentage of woman receiving prenatal care ("Pregnantwoman receiving," 2013). The data for the countries where thisinformation are available for the year 2011 is in table #10.1.8.Create a scatter plot of the data and find a regression equationbetween percentage spent on health expenditure and the percentageof woman receiving prenatal care. Then use the regression equationto find the percent of woman receiving prenatal care for a countrythat spends 5.0% of GDP on health expenditure and for a countrythat spends 12.0% of GDP. Which prenatal care percentage that youcalculated do you think is closer to the true percentage? Why?
Table #10.1.8: Data of Heath Expenditure versus PrenatalCare
HEALTH EXPENDITURE (% of GDP) | Prenatal Care (%) |
9.6 | 47.9 |
3.7 | 54.6 |
5.2 | 93.7 |
5.2 | 84.7 |
10.0 | 100.0 |
4.7 | 42.5 |
4.8 | 96.4 |
6.0 | 77.1 |
5.4 | 58.3 |
4.8 | 95.4 |
4.1 | 78.0 |
6.0 | 93.3 |
9.5 | 93.3 |
6.8 | 93.7 |
6.1 | 89.8 |
