National medical expenditure survey, 1987
Subtitle: Household survey, prescribed medicine data (public use tape 14.1)
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Series: ICPSR -- 9746; ICPSR (Series) -- 9746
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: Medical care surveys; Medical care; Statistics; Cost of Medical care; Drug utilization
Other titles: 1987 National Medical Expenditure survey.; Household survey, prescribed medicine data (public use tape 14.1).
Description: Public use tape 14.1 contains one record per unique medication per reference period for each eligible person in the Household Survey. Included are data on prescribed medicines and conditions related to the prescription, the number of purchases and refills, and expenses and sources of payment.
Notes: Added title page title: 1987 National medical expenditure survey: public use tape 14.1, household survey, prescribed medicine data, calendar year 1987.

Accompanied by data dictionary and SAS files.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Description based on: documentation, 1st ICPSR release, dated May 1992.

United States.

System requirements: a computer capable of reading 9-track tapes.