Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
HealthInsurance.RdCross-section data originating from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey survey conducted in 1996.
Usage
data("HealthInsurance")Format
A data frame containing 8,802 observations on 11 variables.
- health
factor. Is the self-reported health status “healthy”?.
- age
age in years.
- limit
factor. Is there any limitation?
- gender
factor indicating gender.
- insurance
factor. Does the individual have a health insurance?
- married
factor. Is the individual married?
- selfemp
factor. Is the individual self-employed?
- family
family size.
- region
factor indicating region.
- ethnicity
factor indicating ethnicity: African-American, Caucasian, other.
- education
factor indicating highest degree attained: no degree, GED (high school equivalent), high school, bachelor, master, PhD, other.
References
Perry, C. and Rosen, H.S. (2004). “The Self-Employed are Less Likely than Wage-Earners to Have Health Insurance. So What?” in Holtz-Eakin, D. and Rosen, H.S. (eds.), Entrepeneurship and Public Policy, MIT Press.
Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.
Examples
data("HealthInsurance")
summary(HealthInsurance)
#> health age limit gender insurance married
#> no : 629 Min. :18.00 no :7571 female:4169 no :1750 no :3369
#> yes:8173 1st Qu.:30.00 yes:1231 male :4633 yes:7052 yes:5433
#> Median :39.00
#> Mean :38.94
#> 3rd Qu.:48.00
#> Max. :62.00
#>
#> selfemp family region ethnicity education
#> no :7731 Min. : 1.000 northeast:1682 other: 365 none :1119
#> yes:1071 1st Qu.: 2.000 midwest :2023 afam :1083 ged : 374
#> Median : 3.000 south :3075 cauc :7354 highschool:4434
#> Mean : 3.094 west :2022 bachelor :1549
#> 3rd Qu.: 4.000 master : 524
#> Max. :14.000 phd : 135
#> other : 667
prop.table(xtabs(~ selfemp + insurance, data = HealthInsurance), 1)
#> insurance
#> selfemp no yes
#> no 0.1832881 0.8167119
#> yes 0.3109244 0.6890756