National Medical Expenditure Survey: Public Use Tape 4 Household Survey.Prescribed Medicines: Event and Person Level Data for Medicare Beneficiaries. EBCDIC Files Documentation, 1987

摘要

The documentation covers data from the Household Survey of the 1987 NationalMedical Expenditure Survey (NMES) which contains prescribed medicine use and expenditure data for a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized civilian Medicare beneficiaries. The public use data set includes a person level and an event level file and related documentation. The person level file contains one record for each person, which includes demographic characteristics, health insurance status, a summary employment variable, health status indicators, and 1987 income and total prescribed medicine expenditures. The event level file contains one record for each purchase, refill, or other acquisition of a prescribed medicine during 1987. The data represent all NMES respondents who had Medicare coverage at any time in 1987 and for whom data were collected for the entire survey period for which they were eligible. Only data for those prescriptions purchased or otherwise obtained while the recipient was covered by Medicare are included. The records in the event file can be linked to records in the person file. The documentation includes a description of NMES, questionnaires, and technical information on sample design, weight construction, and variance estimation.