organdata: Organ donation in the OECD

In socviz: Utility Functions and Data Sets for Data Visualization

Description

A dataset containing data on rates of organ donation for seventeen OECD countries between 1991 and 2002. The variables are as follows:

Usage

organdata

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 237 rows and 21 variables.

Details

• country. Country name.

• year. Year.

• donors. Organ Donation rate per million population.

• pop. Population in thousands.

• pop_dens. Population density per square mile.

• gdp. Gross Domestic Product in thousands of PPP dollars.

• gdp_lag. Lagged Gross Domestic Product in thousands of PPP dollars.

• health. Health spending, thousands of PPP dollars per capita.

• health_lag Lagged health spending, thousands of PPP dollars per capita.

• pubhealth. Public health spending as a percentage of total expenditure.

• roads. Road accident fatalities per 100,000 population.

• cerebvas. Cerebrovascular deaths per 100,000 population (rounded).

• assault. Assault deaths per 100,000 population (rounded).

• external. Deaths due to external causes per 100,000 population.

• txp_pop. Transplant programs per million population.

• world. Welfare state world (Esping Andersen.)

• opt. Opt-in policy or Opt-out policy.

• consent_law. Consent law, informed or presumed.

• consent_practice. Consent practice, informed or presumed.

• consistent. Law consistent with practice, yes or no.

• ccode. Abbreviated country code.

Source

Macro-economic and spending data: OECD. Other data: Kieran Healy.

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