Description

For persons who had private health insurance coverage the month prior to the interview, HIPRVTOWN reports if the private health insurance was in the person's own name.

HIPRVTOWN is part of the Family Resources supplement that provides information on individuals' health benefits, amount of coverage and income received from employment, welfare benefits, public assistance, and savings.

Questions in the Family Resources supplement are different from those in the core survey in terms of the content and the treatment of missing data. Questions in the Family Resources were normally asked of the month prior to the interview while the core survey asked of the last calendar year. All missing data in the Family Resources supplement were imputed by NHIS. Users can refer to the imputation flag variable HIPRVTOWNFLAG to identify persons with imputed data.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues with this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 1991

Weights

• 1991 : PERWEIGHT