Medicaid Expansion Status and Timing for BRFSS data

Medicaid Expansion status from each state was collected from Kaiser Family Foundation (as of August 17, 2020) https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/. The information captured in this dataframe includes the FIPS code and state abbreviations for merging with BRFSS data. The status of a state's expansion is included as a factor variable. The year of implementation, and the month-day-year of implementation are included.

brfss_medexp

Format

A data frame with rows of states as observations and column variables of Medicaid expansion details:

x_state

state FIPS code

state

state alphabetic abbreviation

medexp_status_fct

character variable of Medicaid Expansion Adoption Status: Adopted; Adopted, Not Implemented; Not Adopted

medexp_year

numeric variable, 4 digit year of Medication Expansion implementation (for states who adopted and implemented)

medexp_date

character variable, Month / Day / Year of Medication Expansion implementation (for states who adopted and implemented)

Source

Kaiser Family Foundation https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/.

Examples

# To Merge depression with core data:
library(tidyverse)
library(brfssR)
data(brfss_medexp)
data(brfss_core)
brfss_expansion<-full_join(brfss_core,brfss_medexp,by="x_state")