National Medical Expenditure Survey NMES3 HHS Feasibility Study. Baseline Impact on Data Quality: Usage of Memory AIDS. Deliverable 5.16.B

摘要

In the Baseline (Round 0) interview of the National Medical Expenditure Survey 3 (NMES3) Household Survey (HHS) Feasibility Study, respondents were provided with newly designed NMES calendars and NMES document folders for use in keeping track of medical events and expenditures during the three-month reporting period between the Round 0 and Round 1 interviews. The 1992 Round 0 respondents also received a $15 prepayment for their efforts to keep the calendar. The report evaluates these innovations by comparing memory aid usage in the 1992 survey with memory aid usage in the 1987 NMES HHS, a survey in which respondents received a NMES calendar with built-in pocket folder only at the time of the Round 1 interview and were never paid for keeping the calendar. The authors find evidence that the introduction of the NMES folder during the Baseline interview resulted in increased use of memory aids.