National medical expenditure survey, 1987
Subtitle: Household survey, long-term care supplement (Public use tape 10)
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Series: ICPSR -- 9675; ICPSR (Series) -- 9675
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: Older people; Long-term care; Statistics; Long-term care of the sick; Medical care surveys; Medical care; Cost of Medical care
Other titles: Household survey, long-term care supplement (public use tape 10); Public use tape 10.
Description: The Long-term care (LTC) supplement contains data on the functional status of persons responding to rounds 1 and 4 of the household survey portion of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. The series of questions on functional status includes items on activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL), continence, and use of special equipment. For those persons having at least one ADL or IADL difficulty, questions were asked about use of community services such as adult day care, senior centers, home-delivered and congregate meals, special transportation, and telephone assurance. Information was also sought on prior nursing home stays, and financial help from someone outside of the household. The Demographics and Sampling Weights file contains person-level data for individuals who responded for their entire period of NMES elegibilities (rounds 1, 2, 3, and 4). Each record contains person identifiers, selected characteristics including age, sex, race-ethnicity, and census region, dates of interview, a response per round indicator for the LTC Supplements, imputation flags and ADL/IADL, and sampling weight variables.
Notes: "The report accompanies the second of a series of public use tapes from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) which provides a new and extensive set of data on the use of health services and on health care expenditures in the United States"--P. ix of documentation.

Accompanied by codebook and SAS files .

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

The demographic data in File 1 replace corresponding data items previously released in the NMES Household survey 1, Population and home health providers (ICPSR 9339). The date in File 2 replace LTC items previously released in the aforementionned study.

Numerical survey data.

United States.

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

Cohen, S.B., R. Gaetano, and J. Waksberg. "Sample design of the National Medical Expenditure Survey--household component," 1987 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association.