Oaxaca Decomposition of Patient and County Factors for Back Pain (2010-2014)

A 2010-2014 dataset applying Oaxaca decomposition to analyze factors for back pain patients. The data was authored by Alicia Sasser Modestino and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is a small dataset, 9.5 KB in size, stored in an XLS file format.

Use Cases

• Decomposing disparities in back pain outcomes based on patient-level factors mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the contribution of county-level factors to back pain treatment variation.
• Applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method to a clinical health economics context.

Strengths

• Data covers a 5-year period from 2010 to 2014.
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Time Range

2010-2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:30:51; freshness should be verified.