National Medical Expenditure Survey, 1987: Public Use Tape 5 Institutional Population Component-Facility Questionnaire Supplement for Nursing and Personal Care Homes and Facilities for the Mentally Retarded - EBCDIC File. Data Tape Documentation

摘要

The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey Public Use Tape 5 contains data from the facility questionnaire supplement of the Institutional Population Component (IPC). The National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) is a nationwide survey sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. The IPC 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 file provides data in addition to those elicited in the phase 1 facility questionnaire. The facility questionnaire supplement was completed by 1,391 administrators or designated staff during phase 3 of the IPC. Data records contain information on special Alzheimer's Disease units in nursing homes, including current and projected capacity. Additional nursing home information was collected on service provision such as case management and recreational and training services. For both types of facilities, accreditation status and resident census was obtained, as well as whether they were part of life care communities. Documentation includes a description of NMES, programming information, a codebook, the data collection instrument, field results, and information on weights and variance estimation.