DoctorAUS: Doctor Visits in Australia
Description
a cross-section from 1977--1978 number of observations : 5190
observation : individuals
country : Australia
Format
A dataframe containing :
- sex
- sex
- age
- age
- income
- annual income in tens of thousands of dollars
- insurance
- insurance contract (medlevy : medibanl levy, levyplus : private health insurance, freepoor : government insurance due to low income, freerepa : government insurance due to old age disability or veteran status
- illness
- number of illness in past 2 weeks
- actdays
- number of days of reduced activiy in past 2 weeks due to illness or injury
- hscore
- general health score using Goldberg's method (from 0 to 12)
- chcond
- chronic condition (np : no problem, la : limiting activity, nla : not limiting activity)
- doctorco
- number of consultations with a doctor or specialist in the past 2 weeks
- nondocco
- number of consultations with non-doctor health professionals (chemist, optician, physiotherapist, social worker, district community nurse, chiropodist or chiropractor) in the past 2 weeks
- hospadmi
- number of admissions to a hospital, psychiatric hospital, nursing or convalescent home in the past 12 months (up to 5 or more admissions which is coded as 5)
- hospdays
- number of nights in a hospital, etc. during most recent admission: taken, where appropriate, as the mid-point of the intervals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-14, 15-30, 31-60, 61-79 with 80 or more admissions coded as 80. If no admission in past 12 months then equals zero.
- medecine
- total number of prescribed and nonprescribed medications used in past 2 days
- prescrib
- total number of prescribed medications used in past 2 days
- nonpresc
- total number of nonprescribed medications used in past 2 days
Source
Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (1986) “Econometric Models Based on Count Data: Comparisons and Applications of Some Estimators and Tests”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1, 29-54..