DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06371.v1
title: National Medical Expenditure Survey, 1987: Health Insurance Plans Survey Data, Private Health Insurance of Household Survey Policyholders and Dependents [Public Use Tape 24]
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. Public Use Tape (PUT) 24 is the third release of data 
 from the Health Insurance Plans Survey (HIPS). The HIPS is a follow-up 
 to the NMES Household Survey and was designed to verify health 
 insurance status reported by respondents to two components of the NMES, 
 the Household Survey and the Survey of American Indians and Alaska 
 Natives (SAIAN), as well as to provide supplementary information on 
 private health insurance premiums and benefit provisions from 
 employers, unions, and insurers through which coverage was provided. 
 With PUT 24 the user can make person- and family-level estimates of the 
 health insurance status of the entire civilian noninstitutionalized 
 U.S. population at the end of 1987. Tape 24 contains three data files. 
 File 1 contains data for persons in the NMES Household Survey. It 
 includes the policyholders identified on Public Use Tape 15, NATIONAL 
 MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: POLICYHOLDERS OF PRIVATE INSURANCE: 
 PREMIUMS, PAYMENT SOURCES, AND TYPES AND SOURCE OF COVERAGE [PUBLIC USE 
 TAPE 15] (ICPSR 9901), and their dependents, as well as persons without 
 insurance and those with only public insurance. In addition, Tape 24 
 contains link files (Files 2 and 3) that enumerate each source of 
 private insurance for each privately insured person in the HIPS. File 2 
 contains the linkages of all eligible policyholders and covered 
 dependents with health insurance obtained from employers or unions, and 
 File 3 contains the linkages of all eligible policyholders and covered 
 dependents with health insurance obtained directly from insurance 
 carriers or associations. These linkages identify the persons covered 
 by each policyholder or all of the private insurance covering each 
 person (whether obtained as a policyholder or dependent). The link 
 files also identify the records in 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) associated with each source of coverage, allowing 
 the user direct access to the Private Insurance Benefit Database in PUT 
 16 in order to characterize the provisions of the insurance covering 
 each person (sometimes through multiple sources). The three data files 
 on Tape 24 can also be linked to all tapes from the Household Survey 
with the person identifier PIDX.
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.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Person-Level Data
DS2: Employment-Related Health Insurance
DS3: Private Health Insurance
description: Noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United 
States.