National Medical Expenditure Survey: Public Use Tape 9 Household Survey, Health Status Questionnaires and Access to Care Supplement Data, 1987. File Documentation

摘要

Public Use Tape 9 from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) contains person level data from the Household Survey health status questionnaire and the access to care supplement. The health status questionnaire elicited information on current and past health status, including acute and chronic conditions, vision and hearing, dental status, mental health and functional ability, as well as health related behaviors, including care seeking and preventive care, and immunizations for children under age 18. The access to care supplement contained questions about usual sources of medical and dental care, including characteristics of the usual source of care and reasons for the lack of a usual source of care. The file also contains basic demographic characteristics for respondents (age, race/ethnicity, sex, and Census region). File documentation includes a description of NMES, programming information, a codebook, the data collection instruments, and information on weights and variance estimation.