This Readme-file-ambulance-paper.txt file was generated on 2020-11-09 by SuZanne Troske. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: Urban and Rural Hospitals Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times [Research Data] 2. Description of Dataset: NA 3. Author Information A. Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: SuZanne Troske Institution: University of Kentucky Address: Lexington, KY Email: stros2@uky.edu ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6665-3328 B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Alison Davis Institution: University of Kentucky Address: Lexington, KY Email: alison.davis@uky.edu ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-4997 C. Alternate Contact Information Name: Kenneth R. Troske Institution: University of Kentucky Address: Lexington, KY Email: ktroske@uky.edu ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6633-8544 D. Alternate Contact Information Name: Sookti Chaudhary Institution: University of Kentucky Address: Lexington, KY Email: sookti.chaudhary@uky.edu ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7673-3433 4. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): 2010-2015 5. Geographic location of data collection : USA 6. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: This dataset (except the data dictionary) is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the dataset creators and publication source are credited and that changes (if any) are clearly indicated. 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/isfe_papers/16, http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ruhrc_reports/8 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: NA 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: NA 5. Was data derived from another source? Yes A. If yes, list source(s): NEMSIS https://nemsis.org/ 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Troske, S., Davis, A., Troske, K. R., & Chaudhary, S. (2020). Urban and rural hospitals closures and short-run change in ambulance call times [research data]. UKnowledge Economic Research Data. https://doi.org/10.13023/95gf-bf14 DATA & FILE OVERVIEW 1. File List: Data for ambulance paper.csv: This is CSV file with 13 million records of ambulance calls in zip codes where an hospital closed and in statistically similar zip codes. The file has 35 variables. This was a special extract from NEMSIS. Variable description: This is a file with labels for the variables in the data file. For more description of the data see the paper listed and the NEMSIS data dictionary. NEMSIS_Data_Dictionary_v2.2.1_04092012: This is the data dictionary provided for Version 2 of the NEMSIS data. 2. Relationship between files, if important: 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? No A. If yes, name of file(s) that was updated: i. Why was the file updated? ii. When was the file updated? METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: The data were collected as a special extract from NEMSIS. Description of how the data were collected is in the link http://uknowledge.uky.edu/isfe_papers/16. 2. Methods for processing the data: The data were used in STATA and SAS. 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: THe data are in a CSV file. It is too large to read in EXCEL. 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: NA 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: NA 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: The data were reviewed as decribed in the paper: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/isfe_papers/16. 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: The investigators listed above. DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [FILENAME] 1. Number of variables: 35 2. Number of cases/rows: 13,779,096 3. Variable List: storage display value variable name type format label variable label d01_08 str4 %4s Organization Type d01_07 str18 %18s Level of Service d01_09 str4 %4s Organization Status e03_01 str3 %9s Complaint reported by dispatch e06_11 str3 %9s Gender e07_34 str4 %4s CMS Service Level e08_07 str4 %4s Incident Location Type emssystemresp~e int %12.0g Time to Scene derived by NEMSIS-minutes emsscenetime int %12.0g Scene Time derived by NEMSIS-minutes emstransportt~e int %12.0g Transport Time derived by NEMSIS-minutes emstotalcallt~e int %12.0g Total Response Time derived by NEMSIS-minutes ageinyear int %12.0g Age of patient in year of transport destinationda~k byte %12.0g Day of week of call destinationho~y byte %12.0g Hour of day of call uscensusregion str9 %9s Census region urbanicity str10 %10s 1-4 urbanicity codes matchyear int %12.0g Year of hospital closure/Match year treated byte %12.0g Ambulance call in zip code with hospital closure=1 owner byte %9.0g Organization Type: Fire dept, private etc. d01_08 medstaff byte %9.0g Level of Service d01_07 nonvolunteer byte %9.0g Organization Status d01_09 cmsserv byte %9.0g CMS Service Level censusreg byte %9.0g Census region numeric female byte %9.0g Female =1 post byte %9.0g =1 when yeardum=1 & treated=1 yeardum byte %9.0g =0 Prior to closure =1 After closure emssrtsttt int %9.0g Sum systemresponse scene transport times urban byte %9.0g =1 urban =0 rural hourday int %9.0g hourday group(destinationdayofweek destinationhourofday) year int %9.0g Year of call data hourdayyr int %9.0g hourdayyr group(destinationdayofweek destinationhourofday year) hourdayyrurb int %11.0g hourdayyrurb group(destinationdayofweek destinationhourofday year urban) weekday byte %9.0g Incident on weekday mrushhour byte %9.0g Incident in morning rush hour erushhour byte %9.0g Incident in evening rush hour 4. Missing data codes: Missing are blank. 5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: No