Raw and processed data on hospital beds, health plan network exclusions, and beneficiary counts in Brazil's private healthcare market from 2014 to 2023. The dataset includes scripts for collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization, as well as tables, figures, and regression results. It was created by Tomás Mello and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in hospital bed availability based on CNES/DATASUS data
- Study the impact of health plan network exclusions sourced from ANS and Amil
- Model beneficiary counts and market dynamics using ANS data
- Replicate econometric analyses from the associated research paper
Strengths
- Includes data spanning a 10-year period from 2014 to 2023
- Contains both raw source data and processed analytical outputs
- Provides the complete set of scripts used for data processing and analysis
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- CNES/DATASUS, ANS, Amil
- Collection Method
- Data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization scripts are included.
- Time Range
- 2014 to 2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-19 23:45:50
- Geography
- Brazil