DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09677
title: National Medical Expenditure Survey, 1987: Institutional Population Component, Baseline Questionnaire Data [Public Use Tape 8]
title: Archival Version

description: The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) Public 
 Use Tape 8 contains full-year data from the Baseline Questionnaire of 
 the Institutional Population Component. It updates data in the January 
 1, 1987, Resident File of Public Use Tape 2, NATIONAL MEDICAL 
 EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION COMPONENT (ICPSR 
 9280), with the addition of data on admissions to the facilities 
 throughout 1987, as well as a revised sampling weight that adjusts for 
 sampling frame duplication between the two kinds of facilities. The 
 Baseline Questionnaire was administered to the sample residents' 
 primary caregiver(s) in the facility. Other information on the sample 
 residents' health and living experiences was gathered from next-of-kin, 
 case managers, or other staff members. The items covered include 
 residence history for up to five previous admissions, demographic 
 characteristics and family composition of the sampled residents, health 
 and functional status, medical conditions from the medical records, 
 information on facility respondents, and, for the mentally retarded 
aged 18 and over, employment and training history.
description: Stratified, three-stage national probability sample, with 
 facility selection in the first two stages, followed by a random sample 
 of residents in the facilities as of January 1, 1987, and of admissions 
 throughout the year. Sampling weights are provided to make unbiased 
 national estimates of (1) all persons who spent one night or more in 
 either type of long-term care facility at any time during 1987, (2) all 
 residents of either type of facility as of January 1, 1987, (3) all 
 persons with one or more admissions during 1987 to nursing or personal 
care homes, and (4) all 1987 nursing and personal care home admissions.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Data File
DS2: SAS Control Cards
DS3: Data Dictionary and Technical and Programming Information
description: Persons institutionalized in nursing and personal care 
homes and facilities for the mentally retarded in the United States.
description: (1) The principal investigator notes that the data in 
 Public Use Tape 8 are released prior to final cleaning and editing, in 
 order to provide prompt access to the NMES data by the research and 
 policy community. (2) The records in this file can be linked to all 
 other files for the Institutional Component (ICPSR 9169, 9280, 9676, 
 9678, and others to come). (3) Unweighted frequencies for residents of 
 both types of long-term care facilities are included in the 
 documentation. (4) The age distribution of the residents are 0-20 years 
 (N = 563), 21-34 years (N = 1,751), 35-64 years (N = 2,357), 65-74 
 years (N = 1,079), 75-84 years (N = 2,068), and 85+ (N = 2,329), with 
 the over-65 population concentrated in the nursing and personal care 
 homes. (5) The racial/ethnic distribution includes residents who are 
 white (N = 8,930), Black (N = 1,032), Hispanic (N = 321), and other (N 
 = 185). (6) The data contain dashes, decimal points, and blank 
characters.