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Activity Number: 60
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 2, 2009 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #305605
Title: Evaluation of Design Effects for Selected Estimates in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Author(s): David Kashihara*+ and Marc Zodet
Companies: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Address: Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Rockville, MD, 20850,
Keywords: survey efficiency ; subgroup over-sampling ; sample redesign
Abstract:

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a nationally representative panel survey of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. The annual survey collects information to produce estimates of health care use, health status, health conditions, medical expenditures, sources of payment, insurance coverage, and health care access for the nation as well as for policy-relevant subgroups. The MEPS has a complex survey design that uses the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as the sampling frame. The NHIS has a stratified, multistage area probability design and the MEPS sample is selected from households that responded to the prior year's NHIS. Design effects are used as a measure of precision to help assess the quality of survey estimates. In this study, design effects for various MEPS survey estimates by selected population subgroups will be examined for 2001 through 2008.

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