National Medical Expenditure Survey: Household Survey. Dental Visit Data.Calendar Year 1987. Public Use Tape 14.3. File Documentation

摘要

The public use data tape from the Household Survey (HS) of the 1987 NationalMedical Expenditure Survey (NMES) contains information and related documentation on the use of, expenditures, and sources of payment for dental services for calendar year 1987. The records on the file represent dental visits, expenditures and sources of payment for persons in the civilian noninstitutionalized population who used any dental services during calendar year 1987 and who responded for their entire period of eligibility. Documentation includes a description of NMES, programming information, a codebook, the data collection instrument, definition of condition codes, information on weights and variance estimation and a catalogue of data items released on this and other NMES HS public use tapes.