rwm3yrs.def

id female year age hhkids married haupts reals fachhs abitur univ working bluec whitec self beamt
docvis hospvis public addon hsat2 handdum2 handper2 hhninc2 educ2 hsat3

  
  Obs:   12200 observations from 1988, 1991 and 1994

id              person - identification number
female          female = 1; male = 0
year            calendar year of the observation
age             age in years
hhkids          children under age 16 in the household = 1; otherwise = 0
married         married = 1; otherwise = 0
haupts          highest schooling degree is Hauptschul degree = 1; otherwise = 0
reals           highest schooling degree is Realschul degree = 1; otherwise = 0
fachhs          highest schooling degree is Polytechnical degree = 1; otherwise = 0
abitur          highest schooling degree is Abitur = 1; otherwise = 0
univ            highest schooling degree is university degree = 1; otherwise = 0
working         employed = 1; otherwise = 0
bluec           blue collar employee = 1; otherwise = 0
whitec          white collar employee = 1; otherwise = 0
self            self employed = 1; otherwise = 0
beamt           civil servant = 1; otherwise = 0
docvis          number of doctor visits in last three months
hospvis         number of hospital visits in last calendar year
public          insured in public health insurance = 1; otherwise = 0
addon           insured by add-on insurance = 1; otherwise = 0
hsat2           health satisfaction, coded 0 (low) - 10 (high) [values between 6-7 changed to 7]
handdum2        handicapped = 1; otherwise = 0; [rounded]
handper2        degree of handicap in percent (0 - 100) [rounded]
hhninc2         household nominal monthly net income in German marks / 1000 [rounded]
educ2           years of schooling [rounded]
hsat3           1 if hsat2 <=6; 2 if 7<=hsat2<=8; 3 if hsat2 > 8


These data were used in:
Regina T. Riphahn, Achim Wambach, and Andreas Million, "Incentive Effects in
the Demand for Health Care: A Bivariate Panel Count Data Estimation",
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2003, pp. 387-405.

Data source:        German Socioeconomic Panel Survey, years 1984-95. 

This sample is an absolutely anonymized extract from the SOEP data, where the identifying variables have been modified

The authors would like to thank Dr. Regina T. Riphahn for facilitating the use of the data. The original data and some comments about
the data can be found at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2003-v18.4/riphahn-wambach-million/ In this data set we have used data
from only 1988, 1991 and 1994. We have rounded a few of the variables, as noted, giving them a "2" extension to denote that they are different from the original variables. 


    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
          id |     12200    3598.603    2067.475          2       7293
      female |     12200    .4779508    .4995341          0          1
        year |     12200    1990.728    2.392669       1988       1994
         age |     12200    43.07639    11.46313         25         64
      hhkids |     12200    .3772951    .4847296          0          1
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
     married |     12200    .7321311     .442867          0          1
      haupts |     12200    .5807377    .4934586          0          1
       reals |     12200    .2128689    .4093525          0          1
      fachhs |     12200    .0451639    .2076721          0          1
      abitur |     12200     .132623    .3391807          0          1
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
        univ |     12200    .0793443    .2702864          0          1
     working |     12200    .7090164    .4542346          0          1
       bluec |     12200    .2362295    .4247822          0          1
      whitec |     12200    .3241803     .468087          0          1
        self |     12200     .062623    .2422935          0          1
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       beamt |     12200    .0745902    .2627397          0          1
      docvis |     12200     3.08082    5.216678          0         95
     hospvis |     12200     .142377     .798889          0         35
      public |     12200    .8736066    .3323059          0          1
       addon |     12200    .0268033    .1615147          0          1
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       hsat2 |     12200    6.703934    2.212956          0         10
    handdum2 |     12200    .1098361    .3126981          0          1
    handper2 |     12200     6.09877    19.12878          0        100
     hhninc2 |     12200    3961.671    1932.352          0      30000
       educ2 |     12200    11.70943    2.347626          7         18
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       hsat3 |     12200    1.803197    .7465238          1          3
