| Sumario: | The Household Survey is one of the three major components of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). (The other two components are the Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives [SAIAN] and the Institutional Population Component.) Like its predecessors, the 1987 NMES provides information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's use of services. The Household Survey was fielded over four rounds of personal and telephone interviews at four-month intervals. Baseline data on household composition, employment, and insurance characteristics were updated each quarter, and information on all uses of and expenditures for health care services and sources of payment was obtained. Public Use Tape 14.1 contains one record per unique medication per reference period for each eligible person in the Household Survey who reported having purchased or otherwise obtained a prescribed medication during that reference period. The file provides information, obtained in four rounds of interviews covering calendar year 1987, on prescribed medicines and conditions related to the prescription, the number of purchases and refills, and expenses and sources of payment.
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