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.

The file rwm.data is an ASCII text file, in DOS format, that contains 27,326
observations on 25 variables, one observation per line. This file is zipped
in the file rwm-data.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a".

Data organization:  Person-year observations, sorted by id and year
Data source:        German Socioeconomic Panel Survey, years 1984-95.

Description of variables:

id	     person - identification number
female	     female = 1; male = 0
year	     calendar year of the observation
age	     age in years
hsat	     health satisfaction, coded 0 (low) - 10 (high)
handdum	     handicapped = 1; otherwise = 0
handper	     degree of handicap in percent (0 - 100)
hhninc	     household nominal monthly net income in German marks / 1000
hhkids	     children under age 16 in the household = 1; otherwise = 0
educ	     years of schooling
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; otherswise = 0

The distributors of the data require that the data are only used for the
purpose of scientific studies. If additional data / information on the
German Socioeconomic Panel Data is required, please contact
SOEPmail@diw.de in order to sign the appropriate contract.

Prof. Regina T. Riphahn, Ph.D.
WWZ - Uni.Basel - Petersgraben 51 - CH 4003 Basel
Phone: +41-61-267-3367 Fax: +41-61-267-3351
http://www.unibas.ch/wwz/stat/
E-mail: regina.riphahn@unibas.ch