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A Sample of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 data
Description
A sample of MEPS 2004 data including 19386 observations.
Usage
data("meps")
Format
- duid
Dwelling unit id
- dupersid
Person id (unique)
- hieuidx
Health insurance eligibility unit id
- wtdper
Sampling weight for person
- age
Age
- female
Female
- race_bl
Black
- race_oth
Other race, non-white and non-black
- eth_hisp
Hispanic
- famsize
Size of responding annualized family
- ed_hs
High school education
- ed_hsplus
Some college education
- ed_col
College education
- ed_colplus
More than college education
- lninc
ln(family income)
- reg_midw
Midwest region
- reg_south
South region
- reg_west
West region
- anylim
Any disability
- mcs12
Mental health component of SF12
- pcs12
Physical health component of SF12
- ins_mcare
Medicare insurance
- ins_mcaid
Medicaid insurance
- ins_unins
Uninsured
- ins_dent
Dental insurance, prorated
- exp_tot
Total medical care expenses
- exp_dent
Dental care expenses
- exp_self
Total expenses paid by self or family
- use_disch
# hospital discharges
- use_los
# nights in hospital
- use_dent
# dental visits
- use_rx
# prescriptions and refills
Details
This data set is taken from book Health econometrics using Stata (Vol. 3).
Source
found in Stata format at https://www.stata-press.com/data/heus.html
References
Deb, P., Norton, E.C. and Manning, W.G. (2017). Health econometrics using Stata (Vol. 3). College Station, TX: Stata press.