National Medical Expenditure Survey: Questionnaires and Data Collection Methods for the Household Survey and the Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Methods 2

摘要

The report presents information on instrument design and data collection procedures for the Household Survey and the Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives for the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. The individual instruments and their interrelationship are discussed in detail with regard to questionnaire content and separate interviewing rounds. Representative data collection instruments are reproduced in numerous exhibits and include screening and enumeration instruments as well as the core questionnaire and questionnaires on type of services used, related conditions, and expenditures and sources of payment. In addition, sets of supplements administered during one or more rounds of the interview cycle are presented. The Household Survey was conducted with the U.S. noninstitutionalized civilian population. The Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives surveyed all persons eligible for care through the Indian Health Service and living on or near reservations. The screening interview in the Household Survey was designed to permit oversampling of the elderly and persons having difficulties with activities of daily living, as well as groups of special health policy interest, including the poor, blacks, and Hispanics.