DoctorContacts: Contacts With Medical Doctor
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a cross-section from 1977–1978

number of observations : 20186

1	data(DoctorContacts)

A time serie containing :

mdu: number of outpatient visits to a medical doctor
lc: log(coinsrate+1) where coinsurance rate is 0 to 100
idp: individual deductible plan ?
lpi: log(annual participation incentive payment) or 0 if no payment
fmde: log(max(medical deductible expenditure)) if IDP=1 and MDE>1 or 0 otherw
physlim: physical limitation ?
ndisease: number of chronic diseases
health: self–rate health (excellent,good,fair,poor)
linc: log of annual family income (in \$)
lfam: log of family size
educdec: years of schooling of household head
age: exact age
sex: sex (male,female)
child: age less than 18 ?
black: is household head black ?

Deb, P. and P.K. Trivedi (2002) “The Structure of Demand for Medical Care: Latent Class versus Two-Part Models”, Journal of Health Economics, 21, 601–625.

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 553–556 and 565.

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series

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