MetroHealth83 {Stat2Data}

Health Services in Metropolitan Areas

Description

Health services data for 83 metropolitan areas

Format

A dataset with 83 observations on the following 16 variables.

City	Name of the metropolitan area
NumMDs	Number of physicians
RateMDs	Number of physicians per 100,000 people
NumHospitals	Number of community hospitals
NumBeds	Number of hospital beds
RateBeds	Number of hospital beds per 100,000 people
NumMedicare	Number of Medicare recipients in 2003
PctChangeMedicare	Percent change in Medicare recipients (2000 to 2003)
MedicareRate	Number of Medicare recipients per 100,000 people
SSBNum	Number of Social Security recipients in 2004
SSBRate	Number of Social Security recipients per 100,000 people
SSBChange	Percent change in Social Security recipients (2000 to 2004)
NumRetired	Number of retired workers
SSINum	Number of Supplemental Security Income recipients in 2004
SSIRate	Number of Supplemental Security Income recipients per 100,000 people
SqrtMDs	Square root of number of physicians

Details

The U.S. Census Bureau regularly collects information for many metropolitan areas in the United States, including data on number of physicians and number (and size) of hospitals. This dataset has such information for 83 different metropolitan areas.

This dataset is in the first edition, but replaced by CountyHealth in the second edition.

Source

U.S. Census Bureau: 2006 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (Table B-6)
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/smadb/smadb-06.pdf