Health: German Health Care Data

Description

German Health Care Data, unbalanced panel.

data(Health)

A data frame with 27326 observations on the following 27 variables:

id: person identification number
female: female =1, male =0
year: calendar year of the observation
age: age in years
hsat: health satisfaction, 0 (low),...,10 (high)
handdum: handicapped = 1, 0 otherwise
handper: degree of handicap in percent; 0,100
hhinc: household nominal monthly net income in German marks
hhkids: children under age 16 in the household = 1; otherwise = 0
educ: years of schooling
married: married =1, otherwise = 0
haupts: highest schooling degree is Hauptschul degree = 1; otherwise = 0
reals: highest schooling degree is Realschul degree = 1, otherwise = 0
fachhs: highest schooling degree is Polytechical degree = 1; otherwise = 0
abitur: highest schooling degree is Abitur = 1; otherwise = 0
univ: highest schooling degree is university degree =1; otherwise = 0
working: employed =1; otherwise = 0
bluec: blue-collar employee = 1; otherwise = 0
whitec: white-collar employeee =1; otherwise = 0
self: self-employed = 1; otherwise = 0
beamt: civil servant = 1; otherwise = 0
docvis: number of doctor visits in last three months
hospvis: number of hospital visits in last calendar year
public: insured in public health =1; otherwise = 0
addon: insured by add-on insurance =1; otherwise = 0
hsat2: 40 observations on hsat recorded between 6 and 7 were changed to 7
newhsat: recording of hsat, (0-2) = 0, (3-5)=1, (6-8)=2, (9)=3 (10)=4

Greene, W. H. (2003). Econometric analysis. Pearson Education India.

data(Health)

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