Research Resources - Data Description

Section 1: Description of Survey Design Features

• Sponsoring Organization
• Design type
• Frequency of reporting rounds
• Most recent data year currently available
• Years of data available
• Sample population
• Oversampled populations
• Number of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs)
• Sample size (most recent year/round) & response rate
• Mode(s) of data collection

Section 2: Description of Selected Survey Topic Areas

• Health insurance
• Coverage of other members of household
• Wording of lack of coverage question
• Timing of health insurance question(s)
• Public program participation
• Health care utilization
• Reference period of insurance status and health utilization same?
• Access to care
• Health expenditures
• Health status
• Personal characteristics
• Family status
• Income, assets, & employment

Section 3: Availability of Data

• How is data released to users?
• Geographic identifiers on public use file
• More detailed geographic identifiers available to agency staff
• Are detailed identifiers made available by special request?
• Can aggregate estimates be made by combining survey data from multiple years?
• Other data sets to which survey data can be linked
• Survey contact information
• Cost of obtaining data

Section 4: Descriptive Statistics (Table includes weighted/unweighted n for each variable)