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Activity Number:
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513
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economics Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #305814 |
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Title:
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Switching from Retrospective to Current-Year Data Collection in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC)
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Author(s):
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Anne T. Kearney*+ and John P. Sommers
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Address:
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15710 Peach Walker Drive, Bowie, MD, 20716-1650,
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Keywords:
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retrospective design ; nonresponse adjustment ; poststratification
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Abstract:
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The MEPS-IC is a national survey of approximately 44,000 establishments and governments that produces national and state-level estimates of insurance availability and costs through employers. Under the current design, MEPS-IC collects data retrospectively, i.e., the respondents are asked to report data for the year prior to the current calendar year. The authors researched the ramifications of asking the respondents to report for the current calendar year making the resulting estimates more timely. In order to switch to current-year data collection, we have to address frame and reweighting issues since the data used in these operations will be one year older than under the retrospective design. In this paper we will present the methodology we used to address and overcome some of these obstacles and make recommendations on the feasibility of switching to a current-year data design.
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