Estimation of Underreported Cases of Infections and Deaths from COVID-19 for Countries with Limited and Scarce Data: Examples from Nepal

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of significant variables.

Sr. no.	Variables	Categorical data (ordinal)	Mean	SD
1.	Income group	Quintile 1 = 1, quintile 2 = 2, quintile 3 = 3, quintile 4 = 4, and quintile 5 = 5	3.018	0.573
2.	Personal savings	No = 1, Yes = 2	1.29	0.456
3.	Worry about food during lockdown	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.04	1.050
4.	Eat limited variety of food	Never = 1, occasionally = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.469	1.092
5.	Eat food that you did not want to eat	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.141	0.97
6.	Eat fewer meals in a day	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	1.708	0.891
7.	No food to eat of any kind in the house	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	1.224	0.571
8.	Increased food shortage	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.014	1.036
9.	Increased financial insecurity	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.668	1.176
10.	Decreased income in my household	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, always = 5	3.051	1.264
11.	I had fears of losing my job	Not applicable = 0, never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	1.744	1.366
12.	Depressed due to uncertainty of COVID-19	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.549	1.159
13.	Anxious due to uncertainty of COVID-19	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	2.805	1.138
14.	News of COVID-19 in media increased stress	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	3.516	1.075
15.	Change in stress level due to COVID-19	Never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, and always = 5	3.700	0.864