National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) 2019 Public Use File (PUF)

A data system of visits to office-based physicians. Note that the unit of observation is visits, not patients - this distinction is important since a single patient can make multiple visits.

Usage

namcs2019

Format

An object of class survey.design2 (inherits from survey.design) with 8250 rows and 1100 columns.

Source

• SAS data: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/sas/namcs2019_sas.zip

• Survey design variables: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/sas/readme2019-sas.txt

• SAS formats: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/sas/nam19for.txt

• Documentation: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/doc2019-508.pdf

• National Summary Tables: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/namcs_summary/2019-namcs-web-tables-508.pdf

Details

A survey design object with 8,250 observations.