Codes and Frequencies
Description
For persons in families with at least one private health insurance plan, HI1PRE indicates if the first plan mentioned covered any prescription drugs other than those administered during a hospital stay.
Data Collection Process
Details about the characteristics of insurance plans (such as HI1PRE) reflect plans for any family member in the household. In order to determine if the person (rather than someone else in the family) was covered by this plan, analysts should use the variable HI1PCOV (Health Insurance Plan 1: Person's Coverage Status), which indicates whether the person was covered by the plan.
Related variables
Please use the IPUMS NHIS drop down menu and search functions for other related variables.
Information was collected on up to five plans per family.
Users may also want to see the variablesHI2PRE, HI3PRE, HI4PRE, and HI5PRE. Likewise, the variables HI2PCOV, HI3PCOV, HI4PCOV, and HI5PCOV indicate coverage status for each plan.
Users may want to use the recoded variable HIPRXCOVR which summarizes prescription coverage across all of the family member plans and reports if any family member has prescription drug coverage.
Definition of Private Coverage
Private insurance was defined to respondents as insurance which pays any part of a hospital, doctor's, surgeon's, or dentist's bill, except plans which pay only for accidents. Interviewers also instructed respondents to exclude plans that pay for only one type of service. Such plans were relatively new that year.
Users are strongly encouraged to review the user notes Insurance Data Collection and Private Insurance Definitions.
Universe
- 1989: All persons that were covered by a private health insurance plan that pays any part of a hospital, doctor or dental bill.
Availability
- 1989
Weights
- 1989 : PERWEIGHT
