learndis: Care costs

In louisaslett/durham-Rpkg: Durham University R Package

Description

The data are extracted from a long-term survey of the costs involved in caring for people with learning disabilities. The survey was conducted collaboratively by researchers at Durham and other UK Universities for the Department of Health. The survey began in 1990 and captured the weekly costs of care at 5 years and 10 years from the start date, including the type of accommodation used.

Usage

data(learndis)

Format

A data frame with 101 rows and 4 columns:

PATIENT	numeric	identifier of patient (note id 12 and 32 are omitted due to missingness)
COSTS.T1	numeric	weekly costs of patient care in 1995 (time 1)
COSTS.T2	numeric	weekly costs of patient care in 2000 (time 2)
ACCOM	Factor with 4 levels	accommodation type, one of DOM (domestic homes), HOS (hostel), RNH (residential or nursing home) or SGH (professionally staffed home).

Source

Durham University

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