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MEPS Topics: Employment Status

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Employment Status

Description: As part of the MEPS questionnaire, the employment section covers questions about each person's employment or self-employment status. For jobs identified, this section asks questions to obtain contact information for each employer. For several types of jobs, questions are asked about type of business or industry, firm size, how long the person has worked at each job, whether health insurance was offered, hours worked, job titles or main duties.

For persons who are currently employed, questions ask about periods of unpaid leave at their job. For those not currently working, questions ask about previous jobs and the reasons for not working. Items related to whether the person was working on December 31st of the data year were added in Panel 4 Round 3. Questions about whether the person's job was temporary or seasonal were added in 2000 (Panel 4 Round 5 and Panel 5 Round 3). Additional questions about health insurance, including whether it was offered to the person, whether it was offered to any employee, and why the person was not eligible were added in 2002 (Panel 6 Round 3 and Panel 7 Round 1).

Beginning in 2002, items related to job begin-and-end hours and shift changes were omitted (Panel 6 Round 4 and Panel 7 Round 2). Informed consent information regarding contacting employers who provide health insurance was added in 2004 (Panel 8 Round 3 and Panel 9 Round 1).

Publications: Publications are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).

Prevalence of Paid Sick Leave Among Wage Earners, 2017

Research Findings #47

Health Insurance Status of Full-Time Workers by Demographic and Employer Characteristics, 2008

Statistical Brief #317

Health Insurance Coverage of Near Elderly Individuals, Ages 55-64, 2006

Statistical Brief #239

Health Insurance Status of Full Time Workers by Demographic and Employer Characteristics, 2006

Statistical Brief #234

Premiums, Employer Costs, and Employee Contributions for Private Sector Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, Single Coverage by Firm Size, 1996-2006

Statistical Brief #231

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for State and Local Governments, by Census Division, 2006

Statistical Brief #223

Co-pays, Deductibles, and Coinsurance Percentages for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the Non-Federal Workforce, by Industry Classification, 2006

Statistical Brief #219

Co-pays, Deductibles, and Coinsurance Percentages for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the State and Local Government Workforce, by Census Division, 2006

Statistical Brief #218

Health Behaviors and Labor Market Status: The Impact of Substance Abuse

Working Paper #5013

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Trends in Cost and Access

Research in Action #17

Dental Services: Use, Expenses, and Sources of Payment, 1996-2000

Research Findings #20

Projecting National Medical Expenditure Survey Data: A Framework for MEPS Projections

Methodology Report #13

Women in the Health Care System: Health Status, Insurance, and Access to Care

Research Findings #17

Changes in the Medicaid Community Population: 1987-96

Research Findings #9

Uninsured Workers--Job Characteristics, 1996

Highlights #8

Job-Based Health Insurance--1987 and 1996

Highlights #5

Health Insurance Coverage in America-1996

Highlights #4

Health insurance status of workers and their families: 1996

Research Findings #2

Page last revised: January 27, 2023

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