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 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.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• 1989

Weights

• 1989 : PERWEIGHT