drvisits {sabreR}R Documentation

Count Response Model

Description

In this example we use data (drvisits.dat) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SEOP) on the self reported number of visits by women to the doctor, just before a major health care reform in 1997 and just after the reform. The health reform raised prescription charges by 200 charged by doctors. This data was analysed by Winkelmann (2004), Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2005, Ch 6) who note that it is interesting to establish if the health reforms tended to reduce visits by the women to the doctor. Following Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2005, Ch 5) we consider the subset of women who were working full time in the 1996 and 1998 panels of SEOP.

Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2005, Ch 5) show that fewer than 50% of the women provide data for both the 1996 and 1998 waves. For the purposes of this analysis and like Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2005, Ch 5) we treat the missing data as ignorable and use all the observed responses.

Usage

drvisits

Format

A data frame containing 2227 rows and 10 columns.

Source

German Socio-Economic Panel (SEOP)

References

Rabe-Hesketh, S., and Skrondal, A., (2005), Multilevel and Longitudinal Modelling using Stata, Stata Press, Stata Corp, College Station, Texas.

Winkelmann, R., (2004), Healthcare reform and thye number of doctor visits: an econometric analysis, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19, 455-472.


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