organdata dataset

Organ donation in the OECD

Organ donation in the OECD

A dataset containing data on rates of organ donation for seventeen OECD countries between 1991 and 2002. The variables are as follows: data

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 237 rows and 21 variables.

Source

Macro-economic and spending data: OECD. Other data: Kieran Healy.

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Details

  • country. Country name.
  • year. Year.
  • donors. Organ Donation rate per million population.
  • pop. Population in thousands.
  • pop_dens. Population density per square mile.
  • gdp. Gross Domestic Product in thousands of PPP dollars.
  • gdp_lag. Lagged Gross Domestic Product in thousands of PPP dollars.
  • health. Health spending, thousands of PPP dollars per capita.
  • health_lag Lagged health spending, thousands of PPP dollars per capita.
  • pubhealth. Public health spending as a percentage of total expenditure.
  • roads. Road accident fatalities per 100,000 population.
  • cerebvas. Cerebrovascular deaths per 100,000 population (rounded).
  • assault. Assault deaths per 100,000 population (rounded).
  • external. Deaths due to external causes per 100,000 population.
  • txp_pop. Transplant programs per million population.
  • world. Welfare state world (Esping Andersen.)
  • opt. Opt-in policy or Opt-out policy.
  • consent_law. Consent law, informed or presumed.
  • consent_practice. Consent practice, informed or presumed.
  • consistent. Law consistent with practice, yes or no.
  • ccode. Abbreviated country code.
  • Maintainer: Kieran Healy
  • License: MIT + file LICENSE
  • Last published: 2020-06-10

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 238
  • Number of columns: 21
  • Class: tbl_df, tbl, data.frame

Column names and types (First 10)

  • country:character
  • year:Date
  • donors:numeric
  • pop:integer
  • pop_dens:numeric
  • gdp:integer
  • gdp_lag:integer
  • health:numeric
  • health_lag:numeric
  • pubhealth:numeric