Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Publication Details

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Title:

Introducing the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with Administrative Records (MEPS-ICAR): Description, Data Construction Methodology, and Quality Assessment

Product type:

Methodology Report 35

MEPS component:

Insurance Component

Publication date:

September 2, 2022

Description:

This report introduces a new dataset, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with Administrative Records (MEPS-ICAR). This dataset consists of MEPS-IC survey data on establishments and their health insurance benefits packages linked to Decennial Census data and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) administrative tax records, including new measures of establishment and firm characteristics as well as employee demographics. This report also details the methods used for producing the MEPS-ICAR. Finally, this report presents statistics characterizing the match rate and the MEPS-ICAR data themselves.

Author(s):

Thomas Hegland, PhD, Alice Zawacki, PhD, and G. Edward Miller, PhD

Agency:

Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Source:

Web Only

MEPS Topics:

Health Insurance -- Employer-sponsored

PDF link:

data_files/publications/mr35/mr35.pdf (620 KB)

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