R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / MetroHealth83
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the MetroHealth83 data set which pertains to MetroHealth83. The MetroHealth83 data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the MetroHealth83 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("MetroHealth83"). This will load the data into a variable called MetroHealth83. If R says the MetroHealth83 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") 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 MetroHealth83 R data set. The size of this file is about 8,353 bytes.
MetroHealth83
Description
Health services data for 83 metropolitan areas
Format
A dataset with 83 observations on the following 16 variables.
City | Name of the metropolitan area |
NumMDs | Number of physicians |
RateMDs | Number of physicians per 100,000 people |
NumHospitals | Nmber of community hospitals |
NumBeds | Number of hospital beds |
RateBeds | Number of hospital beds per 100,000 people |
NumMedicare | Number of Medicare recipients in 2003 |
PctChangeMedicare | Percent change in Medicare recipients (2000 to 2003) |
MedicareRate | Number of Medicare recipients per 100,000 people |
SSBNum | Number of Social Security recipients in 2004 |
SSBRate | Number of Social Security recipients per 100,000 people |
SSBChange | Percent change in Social Security recipients (2000 to 2004) |
NumRetired | Number of retired workers |
SSINum | Number of Supplemental Security Income recipients in 2004 |
SSIRate | Number of Supplemental Security Income recipients per 100,000 people |
SqrtMDs | Square root of numver of physicians |
Details
The U.S. Census Bureau regularly collects infomration for many metropolitan areas in the United States, including data on number of phsycians and number (and size) of hospitals. This dataset has such information for 83 different metropolian areas.
Source
U.S. Census Bureau: 2006 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (Table B-6)http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/smadb/smadb-06.pdf
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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