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Description & Citation--Study No. 6002

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6002
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06002
 
Title:Small Business Benefits Study (SBBS), 1990: [Denver, Flint, Tampa, and Tucson]
 
Principal Investigator(s):Catherine G. McLaughlin
 
Funding Agency:Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
 
Grant Number:13055
 
Bibliographic Citation:McLaughlin, Catherine G. SMALL BUSINESS BENEFITS STUDY (SBBS), 1990: [DENVER, FLINT, TAMPA, AND TUCSON] [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Survey Research Center [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06002
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This survey was conducted as part of an evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Care for the Uninsured Program (HCUP), a program whose primary focus was the development and marketing of affordable health insurance products for small businesses. The survey investigated the number and types of small businesses that offered and did not offer insurance, the number and types of employees of small businesses who received and did not receive insurance, and whether the employers and employees participating in HCUP were different from those with other types of insurance or from those with no insurance. In addition, the survey was designed to test several hypotheses: whether employers facing an inelastic demand for their product or a tight labor market would be more likely to offer health insurance to their employees, and whether higher wages substitute for health insurance for certain groups of highly skilled or unionized workers. Firm-level data collected by the survey include number of permanent and temporary employees, employee turnover, fringe benefits offered to full- and part-time employees (e.g., paid vacation, paid sick leave, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, retirement plan, group health insurance), type of business, number of years owner had owned the company, age and legal form of the company, and gross revenue. Extensive information on health insurance was obtained from firms offering this benefit: total monthly premium paid for health insurance, percent of premium paid by the company, reasons that influenced the decision to provide health insurance, whether a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) insurance plan was offered, whether a deductible or co-payment was required for hospital inpatient services, and whether hospital room and board, physician office visits, maternity care, prescription drugs, inpatient mental health treatment, or substance abuse treatment were covered. These firms were also queried about recent changes in the number of health plan enrollees, deductibles, co-insurance rates, benefits offered, employer premium share, recent changes in health insurance carriers and reasons for changing, and recent increases in premiums and their effects on the firm's prices, profits, wages, and number of employees. Companies not offering health insurance were asked why they did not offer this benefit and were queried about factors that might influence them to offer a health plan. Individual-level data on employees include sex, age, marital status, length of employment, number of hours worked during the last week, salary or wage, health plan participation, amount of health premium paid by the employee, and whether the employee had health coverage from another source.
 
Subject Term(s):employee benefits, employees, employers, health insurance, Health Maintenance Organization, insurance coverage, labor markets, retirement plans, small businesses, wages and salaries
 
Geographic Coverage:Arizona, Colorado, Denver, Flint, Florida, Michigan, Tampa, Tucson, United States
 
Time Period:1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:1990
 
Universe:Small businesses with 2 to 25 employees in Tucson, Arizona, Tampa, Florida, Flint, Michigan, and Denver, Colorado.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) There are two volumes of documentation for this data collection. The first volume, which comprises the codebook, Appendix C, and frequencies, is provided as an ASCII text file and as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. A second volume, which consists of Appendices A and B, is provided only as a PDF file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. (2) Appendix A contains the screening interview questionnaire, Appendix B the mailed survey instrument, and Appendix C the two-digit industry codes.
 

Methodology

Sample:Probability sample of firms stratified by industry and number of employees. Firms participating in HCUP and a control group of nonparticipants were selected from separate sampling frames. A knowledgeable person was interviewed in each firm.
 
Data Source:telephone interviews and self-enumerated questionnaires
 

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:To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination. Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that preserve the anonymity of individual respondents can be obtained from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1994-05-20
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 1998-04-20.
 
  1998-04-20 - The codebook, appendices, data collection instruments, and frequencies are now available as PDF files.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Small Business Benefits Study (SBBS), 1990: [Denver, Flint, Tampa, and Tucson]
 

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