Description & Citation--Study No. 3199 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3199 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03199 |
| Title: | Community Tracking Study Household Survey, 1998-1999, and Followback Survey, 1998-2000: [United States] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Center for Studying Health System Change |
| Series: | Community Tracking Study Series |
| Funding Agency: | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| Grant Number: | 29275 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Center for Studying Health System Change. COMMUNITY TRACKING STUDY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, 1998-1999, AND FOLLOWBACK SURVEY, 1998-2000: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR03199-v3. Washington, DC: Center for Studying Health System Change [producer], 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-07. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This collection comprises the second round of the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Survey and the second round of the CTS Followback Survey. The CTS, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national study designed to track changes in the health care system and their effects on care delivery and individuals. Fifty-one metropolitan areas and nine nonmetropolitan areas were randomly selected to form the core of the CTS and to be representative of the nation as a whole. As in the first round of the Household Survey (COMMUNITY TRACKING STUDY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, 1996-1997, AND FOLLOWBACK SURVEY, 1997-1998: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2524)), the second round of the Household Survey was administered to households in the 60 CTS sites and to a supplemental national sample of households. Respondents provided information about household composition and demographic characteristics, health insurance coverage, use of health services, unmet health care needs, out-of-pocket expenses for health care, usual source of care, patient trust and satisfaction, last visit to a medical provider, health status and presence of chronic health conditions, risk behaviors and smoking, and employment, earnings, and income. The purpose of the Followback Survey was to obtain detailed information on private health insurance coverage reported in the Household Survey. It was administered to the health plans and other organizations (managed care organizations, third-party administrators, employer or union plans, and employers) that offered or administered the respondents' comprehensive private health insurance policies. Information on private health insurance policies collected by the Followback Survey includes product type, gatekeeping, consumer cost sharing, provider payment methods, and coverage of mental health and/or substance abuse services. |
| Subject Term(s): | communities, doctor visits, employment, families, health attitudes, health behavior, health care, health care access, health care costs, health care delivery, health care expenses, health care facilities, health care services, health services utilization, health insurance, Hispanic origin, household composition, households, income, insurance coverage, insurance policies, mental health services, physician choice, physician patient relationship, private health insurance, risk factors, smoking |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1998 - 2000 |
| Universe: | Households in the contiguous 48 states. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | Additional information about this study can be found on the Web site of the Center for Studying Health System Change (link). |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Household Survey: In Round One, a sample of households was randomly selected from within the 60 CTS sites. Households were selected using random-digit dialing techniques, plus area probability sampling of housing units to represent households without telephones or with intermittent telephone coverage. The sample drawn from the sites was augmented with an independent supplemental sample, a relatively small, nationally representative sample of households. In Round Two, the site sample was derived by randomly selecting a sample of Round One telephone numbers and adding some randomly selected households with telephone numbers that were not part of the Round One sample. Attempts were made to recontact addresses that were part of the first round non-telephone sample and to contact some new addresses of households without telephones. The supplemental sample comprised some telephone numbers selected in Round One and some new, randomly selected households. Followback Survey: In Round One, the names of the employers and health insurance plans given by the Household Survey respondents were used to identify the organizations that offered or administered their private health insurance. These organizations were asked to provide information on the private policies covering Household Survey respondents in the 60 CTS sites. Interviews were typically conducted with health plan marketing staff. Round Two introduced the use of secondary sources (health plan Web sites and health plan booklets) to obtain insurance product attributes and changes in the way Household Survey respondents were matched to specific insurance products, such as the introduction of interviews with employers to obtain or confirm correct insurance plan names. |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Restrictions: | This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data in order to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To preserve respondent privacy, certain variables in the Main Data File are restricted from general dissemination. The public use and restricted use versions differ in the amount of geographic detail provided, the confidentiality masking applied to some Household Survey variables, and the presence of the Followback Survey variables. The restricted-use file contains site, state, and county-level identifiers for each observation, while the public-use file contains only site and state identifiers. In addition, some of the values for the state identifiers have been altered in the public-use file but not in the restricted-use file. The restricted-use file contains information on chronic health conditions and includes variables from the Round Two Followback Survey, while the public-use file does not. Moreover, only the restricted-use file contains information that allows the user to identify households and people that were interviewed in both the first and second rounds. The restricted-use file can be obtained from ICPSR under the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement (link). |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2001-07-16 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2008-07-07. |
| 2008-07-07 - Stata setups produced by ICPSR have been added to the collection. | |
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