Measuring Prices of Medicare Physician Services: 1985-1988. Minicomputer ProductFile Documentation of Indexes

摘要

The documentation contains 9 ASCII files of selected job outputs related to theprice index output from 'Measuring Prices of Medicare Physician Services: 1985-1988.' The documentation contains a brief description, file name, record count, file size, record name and variable names and the print output from each file. Note that for these 3 large files, JOB4955.PT1, JOB6304.PT1, and JOB4974, only the first page is printed, whereas for all other files the print is of the entire file. Files contain various cross-sectional, time series forms of Medicare price indexes for physician specialties, all services, types of services in Laspeyres, Paasche, Fisher's Ideal and Chained Fisher's Ideal Index forms.