Common use of Data File Description Clause in Contracts

Data File Description. The Person-Round-Plan (PRPL) file for 1999 is a complex file of privately insured persons and their private health insurance plans and links to the jobs providing insurance. The PRPL file is designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. It is not a person-level file, and linking the PRPL file to a person-level file (such as HC-013 and HC-038) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. Records contain the following types of information (Figure 1): $ Covered person ÷ Flags for whether the person is the policyholder or a dependent ÷ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ enrolled at time of interview ÷ Months enrolled during the reference period for the interview $ Interview Round $ Policyholder $ Establishment providing insurance ÷ Type of establishment (employer, union, insurance agent, etc.) ÷ Types of coverage (hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, prescription medication, long-term care, COBRA, single or family)1 ÷ Out-of-pocket premium (only for Panel 4 round 1 and only when either the plan is not through a current employer or union, or the plan is from a previous employer) $ Plan (for hospital/physician and Medicare supplemental insurance coverage only) 1No effort has been made to validate variables representing type of coverage with external sources. ÷ Household reports of managed care ÷ Family satisfaction with plan (collected for rounds 2 and 4) $ Links to the job providing insurance (for employment-based insurance only, HC-032) On the records for dependents, variables link to the policyholder=s job providing insurance, rather than the dependent=s job. AEstablishment@ refers to the organization through which the policyholder obtains private insurance. The establishment may be an employer, a union, an insurance agent, an insurance company, a professional association, or another type of organization. Many questions in the MEPS HC instrument are asked in reference to the establishment providing insurance to the policyholder. For example, the MEPS HC asks about the Atypes of health insurance@ or covered services, such as hospital/physician and dental coverage, the policyholder gets through the establishment. For each establishment, a Aplan@ is Athe insurance company or Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)” or self-insured company Afrom which (POLICYHOLDER) receives@ hospital/physician or Medicare supplemental (Medigap) coverage. For some focused analyses, it may be important to recognize that information collected at the establishment level does not necessarily pertain to the plan level. For example, if a policyholder obtains from the establishment two separate plans, a hospital/physician plan and a dental plan, then the dental plan may not have the same managed care characteristics as the hospital/physician plan.

Data File Description. The Person-Round-Plan (PRPL) file for 1999 2000 is a complex file of privately insured persons and their private health insurance plans and links to the jobs providing insurance. The PRPL file is designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. It is not a person-level file, and linking the PRPL file to a person-level file (such as HC-013 HC-022 and HC-038HC-039) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. Records contain the following types of information (Figure 1): $ Covered person ÷ Flags for whether the person is the policyholder or a dependent ÷ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ enrolled at time of interview ÷ Months enrolled during the reference period for the interview $ Interview Round $ Policyholder $ Establishment providing insurance ÷ Type of establishment (employer, union, insurance agent, etc.) ÷ Types of coverage (hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, prescription medication, long-term care, COBRA, single or family)1 ÷ Out-of-pocket premium (only for Panel 4 5 round 1 and only when either the plan is not through a current employer or union, or the plan is from a previous employer) $ Plan (for hospital/physician and Medicare supplemental insurance coverage only) ÷ Household reports of managed care 1No effort has been made to validate variables representing type of coverage with external sources. ÷ Household reports of managed care ÷ Family satisfaction with plan (collected for rounds 2 and 4) $ Links to the job providing insurance (for employment-based insurance only, HC-032HC-040) On the records for dependents, variables link to the policyholder=s job providing insurance, rather than the dependent=s job. AEstablishment@ refers to the organization through which the policyholder obtains private insurance. The establishment may be an employer, a union, an insurance agent, an insurance company, a professional association, or another type of organization. Many questions in the MEPS HC instrument are asked in reference to the establishment providing insurance to the policyholder. For example, the MEPS HC asks about the Atypes of health insurance@ or covered services, such as hospital/physician and dental coverage, the policyholder gets through the establishment. For each establishment, a Aplan@ is Athe insurance company or Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)” or self-insured company Afrom which (POLICYHOLDER) receives@ hospital/physician or Medicare supplemental (Medigap) coverage. For some focused analyses, it may be important to recognize that information collected at the establishment level does not necessarily pertain to the plan level. For example, if a policyholder obtains from the establishment two separate plans, a hospital/physician plan and a dental plan, then the dental plan may not have the same managed care characteristics as the hospital/physician plan.