Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.
This person-level file contains data obtained in Rounds 2 and 3 (covering the full year, for periods that persons were resident in a nursing home), for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per person. The data items have been constructed from the edited and imputed data on the Expenditure Bill-Level File (which correspond with questions from the Expenditure Questionnaire, (the EX questions)).
The following statistics were derived from these data:
Total expenses for services in nursing homes amounted to $69.9 billion.
The mean annual expense per person was $22,561.
The mean expense per day was $118.
Medicaid paid 44% and Medicare paid 19% of the total expenses. 30% of total expenses were paid out-of-pocket, while private insurance paid 4% and other sources of payment paid the remaining 3%. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
Back
Email Updates
