Rainer Winkelmann, "Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2004, pp. 455-472. The file w.data is an ASCII text file, in DOS format, that contains 32,837 observations on 20 variables, one observation per line. This file is zipped in the file w-data.zip. Data organization: Person-year observations, sorted by id and year Data source: German Socioeconomic Panel Survey, years 1995-99. Description of variables: id person - identification number year calendar year of the observation doctco number of doctor visits in last three months age age in years male male = 1; female = 0 educ years of schooling married married = 1; otherwise = 0 hsize number of people living in household sport actively engaged in sports = 1; otherwise = 0 goodh good health (self assessent) = 1; otherwise = 0 badh bad health (self assessent) = 1; otherwise = 0 sozh individual receives welfare payments = 1; otherwise = 0 loginc logarithm of monthly gross income ft full time work = 1; otherwise = 0 pt part time work = 1; otherwise = 0 unemp unemployed = 1; otherwise 0 winter interview in winter quarter = 1; otherwise = 0 spring interview in spring quarter = 1; otherwise = 0 fall interview in fall quarter = 1; otherwise = 0 The order of the variables in the dataset is id year doctco age male educ married hsize sport goodh badh sozh loginc ft pt unemp winter spring fall 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. Dr. Rainer Winkelmann University of Zurich, Department of Economics Zuerichbergstr. 14, CH-8032 Zuerich, Switzerland Telefon: ++41 1 634 2292, Telefax: ++41 1 634 4996 www.unizh.ch/sts/, winkelmann@sts.unizh.ch