R Dataset / Package Ecdat / VietNamI

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the VietNamI data set which pertains to Medical Expenses in Viet–nam (individual Level) . The VietNamI data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the VietNamI data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("VietNamI"). This will load the data into a variable called VietNamI. If R says the VietNamI 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 VietNamI R data set. The size of this file is about 1,252,921 bytes.

Medical Expenses in Viet–nam (individual Level)

Description

a cross-section from 1997

number of observations : 27765

observation : individuals

country : Vietnam

Usage

data(VietNamI)

Format

A dataframe containing :

pharvis: number of direct pharmacy visits
lnhhexp: log of total medical expenditure
age: age of household head
sex: gender (male,female)
married: married ?
educ: completed diploma level ?
illness: number of of illnesses experiences in past 12 months
injury: injured during survey period ?
illdays: number of illness days
actdays: number of days of limited activity
insurance: respondent has health insurance coverage ?
commune: commune

Source

Vietnam World Bank Livings Standards Survey.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp.848–853.

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