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<h2>Doctor Visits in Australia </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1977&ndash;1978
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  5190
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  Australia
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(DoctorAUS)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>sex</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age</p>
</dd>
<dt>income</dt><dd><p>annual income in tens of thousands of dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>insurance</dt><dd><p>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</p>
</dd>
<dt>illness</dt><dd><p>number of illness in past 2 weeks</p>
</dd>
<dt>actdays</dt><dd><p>number of days of reduced activiy in past 2 weeks due to illness or injury</p>
</dd>
<dt>hscore</dt><dd><p>general health score using Goldberg's method (from 0 to 12)</p>
</dd>
<dt>chcond</dt><dd><p>chronic condition (np : no problem, la : limiting activity, nla : not limiting activity)</p>
</dd>
<dt>doctorco</dt><dd><p>number of consultations with a doctor or specialist in the past 2 weeks</p>
</dd>
<dt>nondocco</dt><dd><p> number of consultations with non-doctor health professionals (chemist, optician, physiotherapist, social worker, district community nurse, chiropodist or chiropractor) in the past 2 weeks</p>
</dd>
<dt>hospadmi</dt><dd><p> 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)</p>
</dd>
<dt>hospdays</dt><dd><p>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.</p>
</dd>
<dt>medecine</dt><dd><p>total number of prescribed and nonprescribed medications used in past 2 days</p>
</dd>
<dt>prescrib</dt><dd><p> total number of prescribed medications used in past 2 days</p>
</dd>
<dt>nonpresc</dt><dd><p>total number of nonprescribed medications used in past 2 days</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (1986) &ldquo;Econometric Models Based on Count Data: Comparisons and Applications of  Some Estimators and Tests&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>1</B>, 29-54..
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Cameron, A.C.  and   Trivedi P.K. (1998) <EM>Regression analysis of count data</EM>, Cambridge University Press, <a href="http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html">http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html</a>, chapter 3.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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