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<h2>Contacts With Medical Doctor </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1977&ndash;1978
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  20186
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(DoctorContacts)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A time serie containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>mdu</dt><dd><p>number of  outpatient visits to a medical doctor</p>
</dd>
<dt>lc</dt><dd><p>log(coinsrate+1)  where coinsurance rate is 0 to 100</p>
</dd>
<dt>idp</dt><dd><p>individual deductible plan ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>lpi</dt><dd><p>log(annual participation incentive payment) or 0 if no payment </p>
</dd>
<dt>fmde</dt><dd><p>log(max(medical deductible expenditure)) if IDP=1 and MDE&gt;1 or 0 otherw</p>
</dd>
<dt>physlim</dt><dd><p>physical limitation ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ndisease</dt><dd><p>number of chronic diseases</p>
</dd>
<dt>health</dt><dd><p>self&ndash;rate health (excellent,good,fair,poor)</p>
</dd>
<dt>linc</dt><dd><p>log of annual family income (in \$)</p>
</dd>
<dt>lfam</dt><dd><p>log of family size</p>
</dd>
<dt>educdec</dt><dd><p>years of schooling of household head</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>exact age</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>sex (male,female)</p>
</dd>
<dt>child</dt><dd><p>age less than 18 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>black</dt><dd><p>is household head black ?</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Deb, P.  and P.K.  Trivedi (2002) &ldquo;The Structure of Demand for Medical Care: Latent Class versus Two-Part Models&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Health Economics</EM>, <B>21</B>, 601&ndash;625.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (2005) <EM>Microeconometrics : methods and applications</EM>, Cambridge, pp. 553&ndash;556 and 565.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

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


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