DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36842.v1
title: Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Third Quarter 2016
title: Version 1

description: In January 2013, the Urban Institute launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a survey of the nonelderly population, to explore the value of cutting-edge, Internet-based survey methods to monitor the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before data from federal government surveys are available. Topics covered by the 12th round of the survey (third quarter 2016) include self-reported health status, type of health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, out-of-pocket health care costs, health care affordability, health insurance literacy, feelings of unfair treatment by doctors and other health care providers, experience with health insurance marketplaces, awareness of ACA provisions, and rating of neighborhood characteristics. Demographic information collected by the survey includes age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, education, race, Hispanic origin, United States citizenship, housing type, home ownership, internet access, income, employment status, employer size, body mass index, and whether the respondent reported an ambulatory care sensitive condition or a mental or behavioral condition.
description: The survey provides information on health insurance
coverage, access to and use of health care, health care affordability, and self-reported health
status, as well as timely data on important implementation issues under the ACA.
description: The HRMS provides data on health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, health care affordability, and self-reported health status. Beginning in the second quarter of 2013, each round of the HRMS also contains topical questions focusing on timely ACA policy issues. In the first quarter of 2015, the HRMS shifted from a quarterly fielding schedule to a semiannual schedule.
description: The variables include original survey questions, household demographic profile data, and constructed variables which can be used to link panel members who participated in multiple rounds.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
					disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
					statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
					these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
					Created online analysis version with question text.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Response Rates:
					The HRMS response rate is roughly five percent each round.
description: Datasets:
					
						DS0: Study-Level Files
						DS1: Public-Use Data
						DS2: Restricted-Use Data
description: Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) Series
description: web-based survey
description: Household population aged 18-64
description: For each HRMS round a stratified random sample of adults ages 18-64 is drawn from the KnowledgePanel, a probability-based, nationally represented Internet panel maintained by GfK Custom Research. The approximately 55,000 adults in the panel include households with and without Internet access. Panel members are recruited from an address-based sample frame derived from the United States Postal Service Delivery Sequence File, which covers 97 percent of United States households. The HRMS sample includes a random sample of approximately 7,500 nonelderly adults per quarter, including oversamples of adults with family incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty line. Additional funders have supported oversamples of adults from individual states or subgroups of interest. However, the data file only includes data for adults in the general national sample and the income oversample.

Beginning in the first quarter of 2015, the HRMS shifted from a quarterly fielding schedule to a semiannual schedule.