Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Publication Details

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Title:

Construction of Weights for the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component

Product type:

Methodology Report 7

MEPS component:

Nursing Home Component

Publication date:

August 1, 1999

Description:

Building on a previous report (Sample Design of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component), this report completes the description of the statistical methodology used in the MEPS NHC. It completes the reporting of response rates and describes the calculation of weights for the remaining sample units necessary to correct for nonresponse.

Pub #:

AHCPR Pub. No. 99-0045

Author(s):

Sommers J, Bethel J, Broene P.

Agency:

Rockville (MD): Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

MEPS Topics:

Health Care Costs/Expenditures, Medical Expenditures

PDF link:

data_files/publications/mr7/mr7.pdf (265 KB)

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