Health {Rchoice}

German Health Care Data

Description

German Health Care Data, unbalanced panel.

Usage

data(Health)

Format

A data frame with 27326 observations on the following 27 variables:

id

person identification number

female

female =1, male =0

year

calendar year of the observation

age

age in years

hsat

health satisfaction, 0 (low),...,10 (high)

handdum

handicapped = 1, 0 otherwise

handper

degree of handicap in percent; 0,100

hhinc

household nominal monthly net income in German marks

hhkids

children under age 16 in the household = 1; otherwise = 0

educ

years of schooling

married

married =1, otherwise = 0

haupts

highest schooling degree is Hauptschul degree = 1; otherwise = 0

reals

highest schooling degree is Realschul degree = 1, otherwise = 0

fachhs

highest schooling degree is Polytechical degree = 1; otherwise = 0

abitur

highest schooling degree is Abitur = 1; otherwise = 0

univ

highest schooling degree is university degree =1; otherwise = 0

working

employed =1; otherwise = 0

bluec

blue-collar employee = 1; otherwise = 0

whitec

white-collar employeee =1; otherwise = 0

self

self-employed = 1; otherwise = 0

beamt

civil servant = 1; otherwise = 0

docvis

number of doctor visits in last three months

hospvis

number of hospital visits in last calendar year

public

insured in public health =1; otherwise = 0

addon

insured by add-on insurance =1; otherwise = 0

hsat2

40 observations on hsat recorded between 6 and 7 were changed to 7

newhsat

recording of hsat, (0-2) = 0, (3-5)=1, (6-8)=2, (9)=3 (10)=4

Source

Riphahn, R. T., Wambach, A., & Million, A. (2003). Incentive effects in the demand for health care: a bivariate panel count data estimation. Journal of applied econometrics, 18(4), 387-405.

References

Greene, W. H. (2003). Econometric analysis. Pearson Education India.

Examples

data(Health)