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MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (year 2012)
Description
Subsample of the 2012 MEPS data, collected and published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Usage
data(meps)
Format
meps
is a 10638 row data frame with the following columns:
- general
General health: 1 excellent, 2 very good, 3 good, 4 fair, 5 poor.
- mental
Mental health (as above).
- bmi
Body mass index.
- income
Income.
- age
Age.
- gender
Male 1, Female 0.
- ethnicity
1 white, 2 black, 3 native american, 4 others.
- education
Education in years.
- region
1 Northeast, 2 Midwest, 3 South, 4 West.
- hypertension
Equal to 1 if hypertension present and 0 otherwise.
- hyperlipidemia
Equal to 1 if hyperlipidemia present and 0 otherwise.
- dvisit
Number of doctor (physicians) visits.
- ndvisit
Number of non doctor visits (non-physician providers).
- dvexpend
Expenditure on doctor visits.
- ndvexpend
Expenditure on non doctor visits.
Source
https://meps.ahrq.gov
[Package GJRM.data version 0.1-1 Index]