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. 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.

R project statistics dataset table

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

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.