DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06474.v1
title: National Medical Expenditure Survey, 1987: Household Survey, Jobs File and Link to Employment-Related Insurance Coverage [Research File 34r]
title: Version 1

description: The National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) series 
 provides information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families 
 and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's 
 use of services. The Household Survey was fielded over four rounds of 
 personal and telephone interviews at four-month intervals. Baseline 
 data on household composition, employment, and insurance 
 characteristics were updated each quarter, and information on all uses 
 of and expenditures for health care services and sources of payment was 
 obtained. Research File 34R contains original edited and constructed 
 variables related to the employment section of the NMES Household 
 Survey. Variables cover original dwelling unit, person number, round 
 when job was first reported, job number, employment status 
 (self-employed vs. wage earner), hours worked during week, days worked 
 during week, wages before deductions, sick time available, labor union 
 membership, number of employees at place of employment, and industry 
and occupation codes.
description: The Household Survey sample is a stratified multistage area 
 probability design with a total sample of roughly 35,000 individuals in 
 14,000 households who completed all rounds of data collection. 
 Oversampling of population subgroups of special policy interest was 
 based on a separate screening interview conducted in the fall of 1986 
 with a sample of 36,000 addresses. The special policy interest groups 
 include poor and low-income families, the elderly, the functionally 
impaired, and Black and Hispanic minorities.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Data File
DS2: Technical and Programming Information and Data Dictionary
DS3: SAS Data Definition Statements
description: Noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United 
States who reported employment at some point during 1987.
description: NMES research files are intended for users who are 
 familiar with NMES public use tapes and have experience analyzing 
 complex survey data. This data file has not been subjected to the same 
 level of editing and quality control as the NMES public use tapes. The 
 data on this file should be analyzed and interpreted with care. This 
 data file can be linked to the data on NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE 
 SURVEY, 1987: HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND 
 PERSON-LEVEL UTILIZATION ROUNDS 1-4 [PUBLIC USE TAPE 13] (ICPSR 9695) 
 and to policyholders in the employment-related and other insurance 
 files on NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: POLICYHOLDERS OF 
 PRIVATE INSURANCE: PREMIUMS, PAYMENT SOURCES, AND TYPES AND SOURCE OF 
 COVERAGE [PUBLIC USE TAPE 15] (ICPSR 9901), NATIONAL MEDICAL 
 EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS SURVEY DATA, PRIVATE 
 INSURANCE BENEFIT DATABASE AND LINKAGES TO HOUSEHOLD SURVEY 
 POLICYHOLDERS [PUBLIC USE TAPE 16] (ICPSR 6168), and NATIONAL MEDICAL 
 EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS SURVEY DATA, PRIVATE 
 HEALTH INSURANCE OF HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POLICYHOLDERS AND DEPENDENTS 
[PUBLIC USE TAPE 24] (ICPSR 6371).