National medical care utilization and expenditure survey, 1980
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health nd Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 8239; ICPSR (Series) -- 8239
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 784
Subjects: Medical care; Utilization; Statistics; Cost of Medical care; Health insurance; Health surveys; Medical Statistics
Description: The National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey, 1980 was designed to produce a database of detailed information on the country's health status, patterns of health care utilization, charges for services received, and methods of payment. The survey was based on a sample selected to represent the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Repeat interviews were conducted with the initial panel of 6,600 responding households at approximately twelve-week intervals beginning in early 1980 and ending in mid-1981. The Health Care Financing Administration and the National Center for Health Statistics co-sponsored the survey. Data were collected by the Research Triangle Institute, National Opinion Research Center, and SysteMetrics, Inc. under contract to the Department of Health and Human Services. The study consists of six parts: Person, Medical Visit, Dental Visit, Hospital Stay, Prescribed Medicine, and Other Medical Expenses and Condition.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class III.

United States.

The data are available in both logical record length and card-image format.

Part I (Person file): 17,123 records, 292 variables, logical record length of 710; Part II (Medical Visit file): 86,594 records, 134 variables, logical record length or 319; Part III (Dental Visit file): 23,112 records, 94 variables, logical record length of 177; Part IV (Hospital Stay file): 2,946 records, 245 variables, logical record length of 641; Part V (Prescribed Medicine file): 58,544 records, 111 variables, logical record length of 265; Part VI (Condition file): 51,465 records, 109 variables, logical record length of 237.