Update Notes
MEPS HC-127: 2009 Person Round Plan Public Use File
Update #2: 11/22/13
STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #1: 04/24/12
The value of COVTYPIN (single
or family coverage) was incorrectly set for a small number of plans.
These cases have all four of the following conditions: (1) every
coresiding family member’s coverage ceased before the end of
the reference period (interview date or December 31st, so that EVALCOVR≠1),
(2) the policyholder was a coresiding family member, (3) the plan
did not cover anyone residing elsewhere, and (4) at least one coresiding
dependent had coverage during the reference period. In these cases,
COVTYPIN was erroneously set to single. Beginning in 2010, if coverage
ceased for every coresiding family member before the end of the reference
period, COVTYPIN is set to family if there were two or more persons
covered any time during the reference period. Users can reset the
values for these cases in prior years with the available data. An
example in SAS follows:
proc sort data=h127 out=prpl;
by eprsidx;
run;
data eprs(keep=eprsidx numin numever);
set prpl;
by eprsidx;
retain numin numever;
array stat{24} status1-status24;
if first.eprsidx then do; numin=0; numever=0;
end;
if substr(dupersid,6,3) ne '901' then do;
do i=1 to 24; if stat{i}=1 then covered=1; end;
if covered=1 then numever=numever+1;
if evalcovr=1 then numin=numin+1;
end;
if last.eprsidx then output eprs;
run;
data prplx(drop=numin numever covtypin rename=(covtypix=covtypin));
merge prpl eprs;
by eprsidx;
if numin=0 and covtypin=1 and numever>1 then
covtypix=2;
else covtypix=covtypin;
label covtypix='COVERAGE: 1=SINGLE, 2=FAMILY';
run;
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