Those not covered represent only a small proportion of the MEPS-HC target population.įor more information about persons in the MEPS-HC who are in-scope for only part of the year, please refer to this report by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality staff. citizens returning from residence in another country, and persons leaving institutions. Because of these excpetions some members of the following groups are not covered by the MEPS-HC: immigrants, persons leaving the military, U.S. Neither are previously out-of-scope persons who joined existing households but are unrelated to the current household residents. The exception to this is new households created after the NHIS interviews for the respective panels and consisting exclusively of persons who entered the target population after the associated NHIS survey. If an individual was in a NHIS household, but moved to a new household at any point between their NHIS interview and before the conclusion of their MEPS-HC panel, MEPS includes this new household in their sample. When these households respond to MEPS but are nonresponding in NHIS, there is a slight increase in the overall MEPS-HC response rate. It is not possible to link these MEPS-HC respondents to their corresponding NHIS data.
This means that some MEPS-HC respondents are not actually represented in the NHIS dataset. MEPS-HC subsampling has to be done soon after NHIS responding households are identified, causing a small percentage of the NHIS households initially characterized as NHIS respondents to later be classified as nonrespondents for the purpose of NHIS data analysis. After such exclusions, all RUs associated with households selected from among those identified as NHIS responding households are then fielded in the first round of MEPS-HC. Military personnel not living in the same RU as civilians are ineligible for MEPS-HC. These college students living in student housing are removed from the MEPS-HC samples in order to eliminate the opportunity of multiple chances of selection for MEPS-HC for these students. For MEPS-HC, such students are identified through the sample selection of their parents' RU. For the NHIS, college students living in student housing are sampled independently from their families. Once the MEPS-HC sample is selected from among the NHIS households characterized as NHIS respondents, Responding Units (RUs) representing students living in student housing or consisting entirely of military personnel are deleted from the sample. Differences between the MEPS-HC and NHIS samples Within each domain (sample stratum) MEPS selected systematic samples of the MEPS-HC-eligible households from among the NHIS household respondents made available by NCHS. The sample domains used may also (but don't necessarily) vary by panel. Typically, sample allocations across sample domains change from one MEPS-HC panel to another. The linkage of the MEPS-HC to the previous year's NHIS provides additional data for longitudinal analytic purposes. For most MEPS-HC panels, the selected sample represents about three-eighths of the households responding to the previous year's National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. The MEPS-HC, administered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), collects information about families and individuals in five interviews conducted over a two-year period. The MEPS-HC sample includes an oversample of Blacks and Hispanics.
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (hereafter, MEPS-HC) is a nationally-representative, longitudinal survey of the civilian non-institutionalized U.S.
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