R: Doctor Visits in Australia

DoctorAUS

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Doctor Visits in Australia

Description

a cross-section from 1977–1978

number of observations : 5190

observation : individuals

country : Australia

Usage

data(DoctorAUS)

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 activity 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..

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