National Medical Expenditure Survey: Public Use Tape 6 Institutional PopulationComponent. Facility Questionnaire Weight Update for Nursing and Personal Care Homes and Facilities for the Mentally Retarded, 1987 SAS Files. Documentation

摘要

Public Use Tape 6 from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES)updates the Institutional Population Component facility questionnaire file released as Public Use Tape 2, by including a revised weight variable. All other variables remain unchanged. The NMES is a nationwide survey sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. The Institutional Population Component was designed to yield national estimates of the use of and expenditures for care by persons residing in or admitted to nursing or personal care homes and facilities for the mentally retarded and on the characteristics of these facilities for calendar year 1987. The facility questionnaire was completed by administrators of 1,501 participating facilities. Data records contain bed size, type of ownership, facility certification, services routinely provided, average cost, and other information. File documentation includes a description of NMES, programming information, a codebook, the data collection instrument, field results, and information on weights and variance estimation.