National Medical Care Expenditure Survey Household Data: Prescribed Medicines, Eye Glasses and Contact Lenses, Medical Equipment and Supplies Records EBCDIC Files. Documentation and Codebooks

摘要

Data in these files were obtained from the 1977 National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCES) from a sample of 40,320 persons representing the civilian, noninstitutional population of the United States. The tape (one of a set of two) contains three Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) data files of one record per event on prescribed medicines, eye glasses and contact lenses, and medical equipment and supplies. Each file contains information on variables related to use, such as charges, sources of payment, types of medications, and procedures and underlying conditions. A codebook for each component of use is provided. The data files have the capacity to link events of care to members of the NMCES sample, provided on the EBCDIC person record data set, NTIS No. PB83-199539. The documentation contains a description of NMCES; information on sample design, population weights, and variance estimation; information on imputation of missing data; a description of file structure and content; and programming information. These files are part of a two-tape set, the first one of which contains records on hospital, physician, nonphysician and dental services. Both data tapes are also available as Statistical Analysis System (SAS) files.