% DASL file http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Emerald.html % % Rising Health Care Costs % % Reference: The Columbus Dispatch. (1993, June 8). Data computed from an advertisement for Emerald Health Network, Inc. % Authorization: free use % Description: Datafile contains Emerald Health Network, Inc's claim costs from 1986 to 1992. For comparison, the unadjusted Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) is also given along with the medical care component of the CPI (for both these indexes the base year was 1982 when the value is set to 100). % Number of cases: 7 % Variable Names: % % year: Year % Emerald_costs: Claim costs % CPI-U: Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers % CPI-med_care: CPI for the medical care component % @RELATION relation @ATTRIBUTE 'year' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'Emerald_costs' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'CPI-U' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'CPI-med_care' numeric @DATA 1986,176,110.5,125.7 1987,180.9,115.4,132.7 1988,198.7,120.5,141.9 1989,208.0,126.1,154.1 1990,204.7,133.8,169.3 1991,215.1,137.9,182.8 1992,229.0,142.0,195.2