National medical expenditure survey, 1987
Subtitle: Household survey data on home health care and medical equipment purchases and rentals (public use tape 14.2)
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Series: ICPSR -- 9944; ICPSR (Series) -- 9944
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: Medical care surveys; Medical care; Statistics; Cost of Medical care; Home care services; Costs; Medical supplies
Other titles: Household survey data on home health care and medical equipment purchases and rentals.
Description: Public use tape 14.2 provides two data files containing information on expenditures for formal home health care and the purchase or rental of medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items. The Home Health Care file provides person-level demographic information such as age, sex, and race, and information on household-reported medical conditions associated with the use of home health care. The Medical Equipment and Supplies file provides person-level demographic information, and medical condition and date of purchase variables.
Notes: Accompanied by data dictionary and SAS files.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Description based on: documentation, 1st ICPSR release, dated Jan. 1993.

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