subject: Subject sample (single-payer health insurance client).

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing the subjects or clients. Subjects are sampled from all available providers in all of the countries, weighted by household numbers in a provider and subject numbers in a household. Based on insurance utilization, there are three categories of household. Category 1 refers to a household that all of the subjects never utilize the insurance. Category 2 refers to a household that all or some of the subjects have ever utilized the insurance for primary care only. Category 3 refers to a household that all or some of the subjects have ever utilized the insurance for primary and secondary/tertiary care.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 1,697,452 rows and 11 columns:

subject_id

Subject ID. This connects to healthcare, visit_cap, visit_ffs, and visit_drg data.

householder_id

Householder ID. A household only has one householder. Several subjects may be registered to a household. This ID is the subject_id of the householder.

healthcare_id

Provider ID. The provider is the one of which this subject registered to (not always one where this subject visits).

birth_date

Birth date of this subject.

family_status

Categorical variable of family status, consisting person and other for non-family household, or husband, wife, and child for family household. These may be mixed.

sex

Categorical variable of sex, consisting female, male, and unspecified.

marital_status

Categorical variable of marital status, consisting single, married, divorced/widowed, and unspecified.

insurance_class

Categorical variable of insurance class, consisting first, second, and third. The first class is the one indicating the highest socioeconomic class compared to the second and third classes

occupation_segment

Categorical variable of occupation segment of the householder (not necessarily this subject). This consists of central-government-paid householder, local-government-paid householder, employee householder (private company), employer householder, and unemployed householder.

subject_country

country code where the provider is located.

subject_city

city code where the provider is located.

Source

Artificial data


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