MIT Press

Table 1.

The study dataset description.

Variable	Description	Data type
State	Name of each state in Nigeria	String
Geo-political zone	One of the six geopolitical zones	String
Geographical coordinates: Latitude Longitude	Coordinates of each state in Nigeria	Numeric
Population estimate: Female Male	Population by gender for each state in Nigeria	Numeric
COVID-19 cases: Confirmed Admitted Discharged Death Discharge rate Fatality rate	Total count incidence of COVID-19 cases in each state in Nigeria $F a t a l i t y r a t e = \frac{C O V I D - 19 d e a t h c a s e s}{C O V I D - 19 c o n f i r m e d d a s e s}$ The fatality rate is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of people diagnosed with the disease for a particular period.	Numeric
State budget in (billion Nigerian Naira): 2019 2020 2020 revised % reduction	Amount of budget in billion Nigerian Naira available to each state in Nigeria for 2019–2020	Numeric
Total revenue: Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) 2019 Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) 2019 Revenue 2019 Revenue 2018	FAAC is the total revenue in billion Nigerian Naira available to each state in Nigeria.	Numeric
Healthcare: Primary Secondary Tertiary	Number of healthcare facilities available in each state	Numeric
COVID-19 laboratory	Number of COVID-19 government laboratories available in each state	Numeric

Variable	Description	Data type
State	Name of each state in Nigeria	String
Geo-political zone	One of the six geopolitical zones	String
Geographical coordinates: Latitude Longitude	Coordinates of each state in Nigeria	Numeric
Population estimate: Female Male	Population by gender for each state in Nigeria	Numeric
COVID-19 cases: Confirmed Admitted Discharged Death Discharge rate Fatality rate	Total count incidence of COVID-19 cases in each state in Nigeria $F a t a l i t y r a t e = \frac{C O V I D - 19 d e a t h c a s e s}{C O V I D - 19 c o n f i r m e d d a s e s}$ The fatality rate is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of people diagnosed with the disease for a particular period.	Numeric
State budget in (billion Nigerian Naira): 2019 2020 2020 revised % reduction	Amount of budget in billion Nigerian Naira available to each state in Nigeria for 2019–2020	Numeric
Total revenue: Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) 2019 Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) 2019 Revenue 2019 Revenue 2018	FAAC is the total revenue in billion Nigerian Naira available to each state in Nigeria.	Numeric
Healthcare: Primary Secondary Tertiary	Number of healthcare facilities available in each state	Numeric
COVID-19 laboratory	Number of COVID-19 government laboratories available in each state	Numeric