Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the Redesigned Current Population Survey: Evaluating Improvements to Data Processing

• Published in: Medical care research and review Vol. 80; no. 5; p. 548
• Main Authors: Jackson, Heide, Keisler-Starkey, Katherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Data Collection; Health Expenditures; Humans; Income; Insurance Coverage; Insurance, Health; survey processing; health insurance; medical out-of-pocket spending; CPS ASEC

Household surveys are an important source of information on medical spending and burden. We examine how recently implemented post-processing improvements to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) affected estimates of medical expenditures and medical burden. T...