MEPS2001: MEPS 2001: Ambulatory Expenditures Data

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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)

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