National medical expenditure survey, 1987
Subtitle: Institutional population component, baseline questionnaire data (public use tape 8)
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Series: ICPSR -- 9677; ICPSR (Series) -- 9677
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: Medical care surveys; Medical care; Statistics; Cost of Medical care; Health facilities
Other titles: 1987 National medical expenditure survey.; Institutional population component, baseline questionnaire data (public use tape 8).
Description: This survey was designed to yield national estimates of the use of and expenditures for care during 1987 by persons who resided in nursing homes or facilities for the mentally retarded. The baseline questionnaire was administered to the sample residents' primary caregiver(s) in the facility.
Notes: Added title page title: 1987 National medical expenditure survey: public use tape 8, institutional population component, baseline questionnaire data for the institutional population.

Accompanied by data dictionary file and SAS file.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Description based on: documentation, 1st ICPSR release, dated Dec. 1991.

United States.

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