Area Resource File 2005

The Area Resource File is a database of health resources data, measured at the county level for over 6,000 indicators. The information includes measures of employment in various health professions including numbers of professionals registered as M.D., D.O., DDS, R.N., L.P.N., veterinarian, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, and dental hygienist; availability of health facilities including hospital size, type, utilization, staffing and services, and nursing home data; frequency of utilization including utilization rates, inpatient days, outpatient visits and operations data; hospital and Medicare expenditures and demographic and geographic indicators by county. The information is collected from several sources which are noted in the technical documentation and provided by the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The data here are from the 2005 Area Resource File that was purchased by the Woodruff Library in 2006. The data are available in Stata 13 (.dta) and comma-delimited (.csv) formats and are available for use by Emory students, faculty and staff. They are also provided as a whole, and in smaller datasets that are divided into broad subjects (Professions, Population, Facilities and Expenditures and Utilization). The files are available in both "wide" (one row per county) and "long" (one row per county-year) formats. We are also providing lists of variables for both the wide and long data, along with the original data and documentation and SAS code. The data cover the years 1940-2004. Note, however, that the data are not purely annual, as the vast majority of the variables are only available for selected years. For more recent ARF data, see https://data.hrsa.gov/topics/health-workforce/ahrf. County-level, state-level, and national data are freely available to download. Older ARF data are also available via the ICPSR.