Data cleaning procedures for the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation employer health insurance survey /

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Roald Euller, Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis.

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Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1997.

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vii, 26 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

ISBN

0833025228 (pbk.)

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HG9396 .E8 1997X
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Health insurance--United States--Statistics--Methodology.

Insurance surveys--United States.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Data cleaning procedures for the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation employer health insurance survey / Roald Euller, Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis.

imprint

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1997.

isbn

0833025228 (pbk.)

general note

"MR-861-RWJ."

"Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."

At head of title: Rand.

catalogue key

2030388

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RAND designed the survey to assist states in defining problems with their employment-based health insurance markets and in analyzing the impacts of policy options. This report briefly describes the survey, provides an overview of the objectives in editing the data and imputing for missing or edited values, and describes the specific cleaning procedures used.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figure and Tables	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Purpose of This Report	p. 1
Background on the Survey	p. 1
Purposes of Editing and Imputing	p. 3
Methods	p. 5
Editing	p. 5
Outlier Values	p. 5
Inconsistent Responses	p. 6
Imputing	p. 7
Table Lookup	p. 7
Hot Deck Using Previously Processed Records	p. 8
Hot Deck Using Full Donor Pool	p. 8
Regression Model	p. 9
Private Versus Public Establishments	p. 9
Imputation of Establishment-Level Variables to Private Employers	p. 11
Total Employees	p. 11
Employee Characteristics	p. 14
Employer Characteristics	p. 14
Payroll	p. 14
Imputation of Health Insurance Plan-Level Variables to Private Employers	p. 16
Plan Type	p. 16
Enrollment	p. 16
Cost Sharing	p. 18
Benefits	p. 19
Premiums	p. 19
Employer share of premiums	p. 23
Percentage of family enrollment	p. 23
Imputation of Missing Data to Public Employers	p. 25
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