HealthInsurance {AER} | R Documentation

## Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data

### Description

Cross-section data originating from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey survey conducted in 1996.

### Usage

    data("HealthInsurance")

### Format

A data frame containing 8,802 observations on 11 variables.

health

  factor. Is the self-reported health status “healthy”?.

age

  age in years.

limit

  factor. Is there any limitation?

gender

  factor indicating gender.

insurance

  factor. Does the individual have a health insurance?

married

  factor. Is the individual married?

selfemp

  factor. Is the individual self-employed?

family

  family size.

region

  factor indicating region.

ethnicity

  factor indicating ethnicity: African-American, Caucasian, other.

education

  factor indicating highest degree attained: no degree, GED (high school equivalent), high school, bachelor, master, PhD, other.

### Details

This is a subset of the data used in Perry and Rosen (2004).

### Source

Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).

http://wps.aw.com/aw_stock_ie_2/0,12040,3332253-,00.html

### References

Perry, C. and Rosen, H.S. (2004). “The Self-Employed are Less Likely than Wage-Earners to Have Health Insurance. So What?” in Holtz-Eakin, D. and Rosen, H.S. (eds.), Entrepeneurship and Public Policy, MIT Press.

Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.

### See Also

`StockWatson2007`

### Examples

    data("HealthInsurance")
    summary(HealthInsurance)
    prop.table(xtabs(~ selfemp + insurance, data = HealthInsurance), 1)

[Package AER version 1.2-4 Index]