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MEPS 2001: Ambulatory Expenditures Data
Description
This dataset is an extract from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), providing information on ambulatory expenditures and various demographic and health-related variables. It has been used for illustrative examples by Cameron and Trivedi (2009, Chapter 16).
Usage
data(MEPS2001)
Format
A data frame with 3,328 observations on the following 22 variables.
- educ
Education status
- age
Age
- income
Income
- female
Gender
- vgood
Self-reported health status, very good
- good
Self-reported health status, good
- hospexp
Hospital expenditures
- totchr
Total number of chronic diseases
- ffs
Family support
- dhospexp
Dummy variable for hospital expenditures
- age2
Age squared
- agefem
Interaction between age and gender
- fairpoor
Self-reported health status, fair or poor
- year01
Year of survey
- instype
Type of insurance
- ambexp
Ambulatory expenditures
- lambexp
Log of ambulatory expenditures
- blhisp
Ethnicity
- instype_s1
Insurance type, version 1
- dambexp
Dummy variable for ambulatory expenditures
- lnambx
Log-transformed ambulatory expenditures
- ins
Insurance status
Source
2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
References
Cameron, C.A. and Trivedi, P.K. (2009). *Microeconometrics Using Stata*. College Station, TX: Stata Press.
Examples
data(MEPS2001)
head(MEPS2001)