DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06490
title: National Medical Expenditure Survey, 1987: Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Population Data, Data from the Health Status Questionnaire and Access to Care Supplement, and Expenditures and Sources of Payment Data [Public Use Tape 37]
title: Archival Version

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 Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN) was designed in collaboration with the Indian Health Service (IHS), and used the same data collection instruments, interview procedures, and time frame as the NMES Household Survey component. However, the SAIAN differed from the Household Survey in several respects. The SAIAN sample was interviewed only three times and was not given the supplements on long-term care, caregiving, and care-receiving. Also, SAIAN respondents were asked additional questions on topics such as use of IHS facilities and traditional medicine, and were given a modified self-administered questionnaire with separate versions for adults and children. Interviewers for the SAIAN were mainly American Indians or Alaska Natives, and about 20 percent of the interviews were not conducted entirely in English. Of these, approximately 40 percent were conducted entirely in the native language of the respondent. Public Use Tape 37 contains the final 1987 calendar year SAIAN data, and updates all previous releases of SAIAN data. Variables include population characteristics (demographic information, native language, household composition, employment, health insurance, eligibility status) health statistics (medical conditions, illnesses, limitations on activities, vaccinations), prescribed medicines (dates medication last taken, name of medication prescribed, number of medication purchases made during the year), home health care, medical items purchased, rented, or otherwise obtained, type of traditional medical practitioner seen by respondent, type of service obtained during dental visits, inpatient hospital stays (reason for entry, surgery performed, days and nights in hospital, date entered and discharged), ambulatory visits and telephone calls to physicians' offices, visits to hospital outpatient departments, and visits to hospital emergency rooms.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Population Characteristics Data 
 DS2: Population Characteristics Data--Appendix File 
 DS3: Health Status Questionnaires and Access to Care Supplement Data 
 DS4: Prescribed Medicines Data 
 DS5: Home Health Provider Data 
 DS6: Medical Equipment Purchases and Rentals Data 
 DS7: Traditional Medicine Data 
 DS8: Dental Visit Data 
 DS9: Hospital Stays Data 
 DS10: Medical Provider Visit Data 
 DS11: Outpatient Visit Data 
 DS12: Emergency Room Visit Data 
 DS13: Technical and Programming Information and Data Dictionary 
 DS14: SAS Data Definition Statements for All Parts 
 DS15: Questionnaires and Data Collection Methods
description: National Medical Expenditure Survey Series
description: The principal investigator notes that the data in Public Use Tape 37 supersede the following public use tapes: NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS [PUBLIC USE TAPE 20P] (ICPSR 6231), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY HEALTH STATUS QUESTIONNAIRES AND ACCESS TO CARE SUPPLEMENT [PUBLIC USE TAPE 21P] (ICPSR 6169), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY PRESCRIBED MEDICINE DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 23.1P] (ICPSR 6225), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY DATA ON HOME HEALTH CARE, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT PURCHASES AND RENTALS, AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE [PUBLIC USE TAPE 23.2P] (ICPSR 6251), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY DENTAL VISIT DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 23.3P] (ICPSR 6226), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY HOSPITAL STAYS DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 23.4P] (ICPSR 6220), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, PRELIMINARY AMBULATORY MEDICAL VISIT DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 23.5P] (ICPSR 6221). Records in these files can be linked to other public use data sets from the SAIAN using the person identifier (PIDX).
description: Civilian, noninstitutionalized American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on or near federal reservations, who were eligible to receive care provided or supported by the Indian Health Service.
description: The sample is a stratified area probability design with three stages of sample selection: (1) selection of primary sampling units (PSUs), which are counties or groups of contiguous counties (in Alaska, the county equivalents developed by the state of Alaska and the Census Bureau for statistical purposes were employed), (2) selection of segments within PSUs, (3) selection and screening of dwelling units within segments. Based on the results of the screening, all dwelling units including persons eligible for IHS services were selected in the SAIAN. The sample frame included all counties in the United States including or adjacent to reservations of federally-recognized tribes or Alaska Native villages. For cost considerations, the sample frame was truncated to remove counties with the lowest concentrations of eligible persons, and disproportionate sampling was applied to remaining counties with low concentrations of American Indians.