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Healthcare expenditure data
Description
Healthcare expenditure data set.
Usage
MEPS
Format
A data frame with 29784 rows and 29 variables:
EXP
the aggregate annual office based expenditure per participants, semicontinuous outcomes
AGE
Age
GENDER
1 if female
ASIAN
1 if Asian
BLACK
1 if Black
NORTHEAST
1 if Northeast
MIDWEST
1 if Midwest
SOUTH
1 if South
USC
1 if have usual source of care
COLLEGE
1 if colleage or higher degrees
HIGHSCH
1 if high school degree
MARRIED
1 if married
WIDIVSEP
1 if widowed or divorced or separated
FAMSIZE
Family Size
HINCOME
1 if high income
MINCOME
1 if middle income
LINCOME
1 if low income
NPOOR
1 if near poor
POOR
1 if poor
FAIR
1 if fair
GOOD
1 if good
VGOOD
1 if very good
MNHPOOR
1 if poor or fair mental health
ANYLIMIT
1 if any functional or activity limitation
unemployed
1 if unemployed at the beginning of 2006
EDUCHEALTH
1 if education, health and social services
PUBADMIN
1 if public administration
insured
1 if is insured at the beginning of the year 2006
MANAGEDCARE
if enrolled in an HMO or a gatekeeper plan
Source
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/