| ADMBED |
Total admissions/total beds, short-term hospitals |
| OCC |
Total inpatient days/(total beds x 365), short-term hospitals |
| LOS |
Total inpatient days/total admissions, short-term hospitals |
| AFDC |
Percent of population on AFDC in county (X̄ =4.13) |
| BIRTH |
Births per 10,000 population in county (X̄ =1.56) |
| COMMINS |
Percent of population covered by commercial insurance (including Blue Cross) in State (X̄ =79.39) |
| CRIME |
Crimes per 100,000 population in county in 1975 (X̄ =4131.81) |
| DSMSA |
County located in an SMSA (X̄ =.54) |
| EDUC |
Average years of educational attainment for county population (X̄ =11.63) |
| GOV |
Hospital operated by non-Federal government agency (X̄ =.24) |
| INCOME |
Personal income per capita in county (X̄ =4322.88) |
| MDPOP |
Active physicians per capita in county (X̄ =.001) |
| MEDSCHL |
Number of years as a teaching hospital (X̄ =1.21) |
| NHBPC |
Nursing home beds per 1,000 persons in county (X̄ =.008) |
| POPDENS |
Population (100s) per square mile in county (X̄ =22.06) |
| POPT18 |
Percent of population in Part A Medicare (X̄ =11.35) |
| PROF |
For-profit hospital (X̄ =.09) |
| SPMD |
Percent of physicians in county who are specialty physicians (X̄ =48.41) |
| UNEMRT |
Proportion of labor force in county unemployed (X̄ =.06) |
| WHITE |
Proportion of population composed of whites in county (X̄ =92.06) |
| CON1 |
Certificate of need index (measuring activism of the State program) (X̄ =.25) |
| CON2 |
Certificate of need index (measuring limitations of State program) (X̄ =.01) |
| DPSRO |
Dummy variable: equals 1.0 if hospital ever covered by binding review (X̄ =.59) |
| D70-78 |
Dummy variables: equal 1.0 in year indicated by the two digits (for example, 1970 for D70) and all later years (through 1978);equal 0.0 for earlier years |
| Dss |
Dummy variable: equals 1.0 for all years if hospital is in State ss; 0.0 otherwise (ss indicates the two-letter abbreviation of the State) |
| Dssyy |
Dummy variable: equals 1.0 for hospital in State ss in year yy and later; 0.0 otherwise (ss is two-letter abbreviation for a State; yy indicates the first fiscal year during which rate-setting [or a version of rate-setting] was in place) |
