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Visits to Physician Office
Description
a cross-section
number of observations : 4406
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(OFP)Format
A dataframe containing :
- ofp
number of physician office visits
- ofnp
number of nonphysician office visits
- opp
number of physician outpatient visits
- opnp
number of nonphysician outpatient visits
- emr
number of emergency room visits
- hosp
number of hospitalizations
- numchron
number of chronic conditions
- adldiff
the person has a condition that limits activities of daily living ?
- age
age in years (divided by 10)
- black
is the person African–American ?
- sex
is the person male ?
- maried
is the person married ?
- school
number of years of education
- faminc
family income in 10000$
- employed
is the person employed ?
- privins
-
is the person covered by private health insurance?
- medicaid
is the person covered by medicaid ?
- region
-
the region (
noreast,midwest,west) - hlth
self-perceived health (excellent, poor, other)
Source
Deb, P. and P.K. Trivedi (1997) “Demand for Medical Care by the Elderly: A Finite Mixture Approach”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, 313-326..
References
Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 6.
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations