U.S. Nursing Home Inspections and Legislative Influence, 2000-2017

A collection of 216,331 inspections of 17,913 nursing homes conducted by U.S. state agencies between 2000 and 2017. Created by Frederick J. Boehmke and colleagues, it examines how individual and institutional legislative preferences influence the number of citations issued by executive agencies. The data supports analysis of political oversight and its impact on regulatory enforcement.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between legislator political leanings and the number of citations issued to nursing homes
• Modeling the impact of majority party status on individual legislative influence over state agencies
• Studying the conditional influence of collective legislative institutions on regulatory outcomes

Strengths

• 216,331 inspection records
• 17,913 unique nursing homes
• 18-year longitudinal coverage from 2000 to 2017

Limitations

• Temporal staleness as the data collection ends in 2017
• Limited to nursing home inspections as the sole proxy for agency oversight behavior

Provenance

Source

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations

Time Range

2000-2017

Freshness

Data covers the period 2000-2017; last metadata update recorded in 2026.

Geography

United States