National survey of access to medical care, 1982
By: principal investigators, Ronald M. Andersen and Lu Ann Aday
Series: ICPSR -- 8244; ICPSR (Series) -- 8244
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Medical care; Utilization; Statistics; Health surveys; Medical Statistics
Description: The purpose of the National Survey of Access to Medical Care, 1982, was to provide current data on the accessability of medical care for the United States population. The 1982 access survey served to update information available from previous Center for Health Administration Studies/National Opinion Research Center surveys in 1953, 1958, 1963, 1970, and 1976. This data collection provides information on traditional GNP-type indicators as well as on special access problems reflective of the 1980's. All United States households with phones were sampled between May 10 and September 27, 1982 using a random-digit dialing sample design which included an oversample of low income (150 per cent of poverty level) households. There are five files in the data collection: 1) a logical record length data file, 2) frequencies of all variables, 3) SPSS control cards, 4) a file containing the SPSS version of the data file including variable labels, value labels, and missing values for each variable, and 5) a final file listing the variables with column locations and formats.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

United States.

6,610 cases, 477 variables, and a logical record length of 4,000 characters.