Estimation Procedures in the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household211 Component. Methodology Report 5

摘要

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is the third in a series of211u001enationally representative surveys of medical care use and expenditures sponsored 211u001eby the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). MEPS comprises four 211u001ecomponent surveys. The Household Component (HC) produces national and regional 211u001eestimates of the health care utilization, expenditures, sources of payment, and 211u001einsurance coverage of the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population. The HC 211u001esample design is a stratified multistage area probability design with 211u001edisproportionate sampling to facilitate the selection of an oversample of 211u001eminorities. This report provides an overall summary of HC sample yields across 211u001ethe three rounds of data collection that cover calendar year 1996. It also 211u001eprovides an overview of the weighting strategies used to obtain national 211u001eestimates of health care parameters for the population. Survey design 211u001ecomplexities that require special consideration for variance estimation and 211u001eanalysis are discussed.