DITPORT
Portion of the cost of seeing practitioner for special diets covered by insurance
Codes and Frequencies
Description
For sample adults and children in 2012 whose visits to a practitioner for special diets in the past 12 months were (at least partly) covered by health insurance, DITPORT reports whether all or just some of the cost of seeing a practitioner for special diets was covered by health insurance.
Special diets were one of many alternative health treatment modalities included in the Alternative Health Supplements.
Related Variables
Additional information about the use of special diets was collected for respondents who reported using special diets in the past 12 months, including variables on frequency and cost of use. Please use the IPUMS NHIS drop-down menus and search function to explore these variables.
Universe
- 2012: Sample adults age 18+ and sample children of ages 4-17 whose visit(s) to a practitioner for speacial diet in the past 12 months were (at least partly) covered by health insurance.
Availability
- 2012
Weights
- 2012 : SUPP4WT
