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Plan and Operation of the National Employer Health Insurance Survey

The National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS), a state and national probability sample survey of private establishments and governments, was conducted in 1994.

The survey was designed to produce state and national estimates of employer-sponsored health insurance. Topics include employee eligibility and enrollment and characteristics of offered plans.

The NEHIS four major objectives are the following:

bullet graphic Provide baseline data for evaluating the effects of heath care reform at the state and national level.

bullet graphic Describe the employment-based health insurance system as of 1993.

bullet graphic Measure state and national levels of health insurance spending for the National Health Accounts. (National Health Accounts are HCFA’s source of data used for describing the current economic resources of the National devoted to health care.

bullet graphic Provide data for prospective policy analysis of the effects of health care reform.

This report provides a description of the development of the NEHIS including the survey design; the questionnaire content; and the methodologies employed in data collection, in data processing, and for data analysis. Current and future analysts and data users should find the topic areas and details covered in this report instructive when analyzing and utilizing the NEHIS data set.

 

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This page last reviewed January 11, 2007

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