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**National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS)available through the NCHS Research    Data Center**

The Division of Health    Care Statistics is pleased to announce the release of National Employer Health Insurance    Survey (NEHIS) files to researchers through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC). Due to    confidentiality constraints, NCHS is unable to release a public use version of the NEHIS    files. The RDC, however, enables researchers to access these confidential files.

The National Employer    Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS) was developed to produce estimates on employer-sponsored    health insurance data in the United States. The NEHIS was the first Federal survey to    represent all employers in the United States by State and obtain information on all plans    offered to employees by their employers. The survey data provides an important benchmark    for analyzing recent developments in the health insurance market in conjunction with more    recent surveys.
The NEHIS was a national    probability sample survey of business establishments (specific locations), governments,    and self-employed individuals with no employees and no other locations. The survey also    included a sample of health insurance plans offered by employers. Data were collected from    approximately 39,000 employers in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Information    on health insurance plans was collected from nearly 47,000 health plans. The overall    response rate for the survey was 70 percent. The survey was designed to produce State and    national estimates.

Data    collected in the survey provide baseline data by State on various aspects of    employer-sponsored health insurance, including employees eligible for coverage and their    take-up rate, type and number of plans offered to employees, as well as detailed    characteristics of plans offered (monthly premiums, employer and employee contributions to    premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and covered services). The survey instrument used for    the 1994 NEHIS may be viewed using the following website: **www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm.**
Prospective researchers must    submit a research proposal that will be reviewed and approved by a committee whose    judgment is based upon the availability of Research Data Center (RDC) resources,    consistency with the mission of NCHS, and the feasibility of the project. Two access    methods are available to researchers: onsite and remote. Regardless of the option chosen,    each has an associated cost, which includes both capital and labor expenses involved in    setting up and monitoring each project. In general, cost for on site researchers is $1,000    per week. Cost for remote access for any one data set is $500 per month. File construction    and setup cost is $500 per day of effort. Further information about the RDC may be found    by accessing its website at: **www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm.**
File documentation will be sent to prospective researchers upon request. All    requests for file documentation should be addressed to:    Adonikka Deare    Development and Analysis Group    6525 Belcrest Road, Room 952    Hyattsville, MD 20782    Email: **[email protected]**
 

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This page last reviewed August 08, 2000

**U.S.    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES****Centers    for Disease Control and Prevention**    National Center for Health Statistics    Division of Data Services     Hyattsville, MD    20782-2003    (301) 458-4636
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