Averaged aggregated governance indicator
Nutrition and health of population may be associated
with other structural indices including political situation,
country’s governance, among others. In this study, we
included aggregated governance indicator as a confounding
variable. The averaged aggregate governance indicator
represents the aggregated average of the six world governance
indicators made by the World Bank [25]. The six
indicators are aggregated and using z-scores, the scale
that ranges from -2.5 to +2.5 was made. Higher score represents
higher averaged aggregated governance indicator.
In the current review, we extracted the data of averaged
aggregated governance indicator from the NLiS database.
It was treated as a continuous variable to preserve small
differences between nations.