docvisits: Demand for Health Care Data
In zic: Bayesian Inference for Zero-Inflated Count Models

This data set gives the number of doctor visits in the last three months for a sample of German male individuals in 1994. The data set is taken from Riphahn et al. (2003) and is a subsample of the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). In contrast to Riphahn et al. (2003) only male individuals from the last wave are considered. See Jochmann (2013) for further details.

1	data(docvisits)

This data frame contains 1812 observations on the following 22 variables:

docvisits: number of doctor visits in last 3 months
age: age
agesq: age squared / 1000
age30: 1 if age >= 30
age35: 1 if age >= 35
age40: 1 if age >= 40
age45: 1 if age >= 45
age50: 1 if age >= 50
age55: 1 if age >= 55
age60: 1 if age >= 60
health: health satisfaction, 0 (low) - 10 (high)
handicap: 1 if handicapped, 0 otherwise
hdegree: degree of handicap in percentage points
married: 1 if married, 0 otherwise
schooling: years of schooling
hhincome: household monthly net income, in German marks / 1000
children: 1 if children under 16 in the household, 0 otherwise
self: 1 if self employed, 0 otherwise
civil: 1 if civil servant, 0 otherwise
bluec: 1 if blue collar employee, 0 otherwise
employed: 1 if employed, 0 otherwise
public: 1 if public health insurance, 0 otherwise
addon: 1 if add-on insurance, 0 otherwise

Jochmann, M. (2013). “What Belongs Where? Variable Selection for Zero-Inflated Count Models with an Application to the Demand for Health Care”, Computational Statistics, 28, 1947–1964.

Riphahn, R. T., Wambach, A., Million, A. (2003). “Incentive Effects in the Demand for Health Care: A Bivariate Panel Count Data Estimation”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18, 387–405.

Wagner, G. G., Frick, J. R., Schupp, J. (2007). “The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) – Scope, Evolution and Enhancements”, Schmollers Jahrbuch, 127, 139–169.

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