한국의료패널(KHP) 활용을 위한 Stata 패키지 개발

Korea Health Panel(KHP) provides detailed information on individual medical expenditure and diseases for establishing national medical policies. Since the survey conducted from 2008 to 2018 consists of more than 250 separate data files, KHP researchers spend a lot of time and effort in creating panel data for empirical analysis. In this study, we propose a Stata module with the name of “smart_khp_v3” to fill the gap between KHP raw data and the panel data for analysis. If we in advance set up a Stata command specifically working for KHP data files, we can save much time in constructing a panel data repetitively. This module has not only the advantage of a combined data set of household member + single episode, but also household member + multiple episodes panel data. We present the role of “smart_khp_v3” as an intermediate tool that can improve the quality of research by assigning more time and effort on research analysis itself rather than building panel data.