OFP: Visits to Physician Office
Description
a cross-section number of observations : 4406
observation : individuals
country : United States
Format
A dataframe containing :
- ofp
- number of physician office visits
- ofnp
- number of nonphysician office visits
- opp
- number of physician outpatient visits
- opnp
- number of nonphysician outpatient visits
- emr
- number of emergency room visits
- hosp
- number of hospitalizations
- numchron
- number of chronic conditions
- adldiff
- the person has a condition that limits activities of daily living ?
- age
- age in years (divided by 10)
- black
- is the person african--american ?
- sex
- is the person male ?
- maried
- is the person maried ?
- school
- number of years of education
- faminc
- family income in 10000\$
- employed
- is the person employed ?
- privins
- is the person covered by private health insurance ?
- medicaid
- is the person covered by medicaid ?
- region
- the region (noreast, midwest,west)
- hlth
- self-perceived health (excellent, poor, other)
Source
Deb, P. and P.K. Trivedi (1997) “Demand for Medical Care by the Elderly: A Finite Mixture Approach”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, 313-326..