R Dataset / Package Ecdat / VietNamH

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the VietNamH data set which pertains to Medical Expenses in Viet–nam (household Level) . The VietNamH data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the VietNamH data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("VietNamH"). This will load the data into a variable called VietNamH. If R says the VietNamH data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the VietNamH R data set. The size of this file is about 387,282 bytes.

Medical Expenses in Viet–nam (household Level)

Description

a cross-section from 1997

number of observations : 5999

observation : households

country : Vietnam

Usage

data(VietNamH)

Format

A dataframe containing :

sex: gender of household head (male,female)
age: age of household head
educyr: schooling year of household head
farm: farm household ?
urban: urban household ?
hhsize: household size
lntotal: log household total expenditure
lnmed: log household medical expenditure
lnrlfood: log household food expenditure
lnexp12m: log of total household health care expenditure for 12 months
commune: commune

Source

Vietnam World Bank Livings Standards Survey.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp.88–90.

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