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Doctor visits in Australia
Description
The data come
from the Australian Health Survey of 1977-78 and consist of 5190
single adults where young and old have been oversampled.
Usage
data(dvisits)
Format
A data frame with 5190 observations on the following 19 variables.
sex
- 1 if female, 0 if male
age
- Age in years divided by 100
(measured as mid-point of 10 age groups from 15-19 years to
65-69 with 70 or more coded treated as 72)
agesq
- age squared
income
- Annual income in Australian dollars divided by 1000
(measured as mid-point of coded ranges Nil, less than 200, 200-1000,
1001-, 2001-, 3001-, 4001-, 5001-, 6001-, 7001-, 8001-10000,
10001-12000, 12001-14000, with 14001- treated as 15000
levyplus
- 1 if covered by private health insurance fund for private
patient in public hospital (with doctor of choice), 0 otherwise
freepoor
- 1 if covered by government because low income, recent immigrant,
unemployed, 0 otherwise
freerepa
- 1 if covered free by government because of old-age or disability
pension, or because invalid veteran or family of deceased
veteran, 0 otherwise
illness
- Number of illnesses in past 2 weeks with 5 or more coded as 5
actdays
- Number of days of reduced activity in past two weeks due to
illness or injury
hscore
- General health questionnaire score using Goldberg's method.
High score indicates bad health
chcond1
- 1 if chronic condition(s) but not limited in activity, 0 otherwise
chcond2
- 1 if chronic condition(s) and limited in activity, 0 otherwise
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
medicine
- 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, Trivedi P, Milne F and Piggot J (1988) A Microeconometric
model of the demand for health care and health insurance in Australia,
Review of Economic Studies 55, 85-106
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