Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Second Quarter 2014 (ICPSR 36045)

Version Date: Aug 7, 2019

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Principal Investigator(s):
John Holahan, Urban Institute; Sharon K. Long, Urban Institute

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36045.v3

Version V3 ()

  • V3 [2019-08-07]
  • V2 [2017-05-23] unpublished
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Summary

In January 2013, the Urban Institute launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a quarterly survey of the nonelderly population, to explore the value of cutting-edge, Internet-based survey methods to monitor the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before data from federal government surveys are available. Topics covered by the sixth round of the survey (second quarter 2014) include self-reported health status, type of and satisfaction with current health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, health care affordability, awareness of key provisions of the ACA, opinions about the ACA, sources of information about the health plans in the ACA health insurance exchanges (healthcare.gov), the importance of various criteria in choosing health insurance plans, whether the respondent enrolled in health insurance through healthcare.gov, and how easy or hard it was to use healthcare.gov. Additional information collected by the survey includes income, employment status, age, education, race, gender, housing type, marital status, home ownership, internet access, ability to read and work with numbers, and sexual orientation. The data file also records whether the respondent reported an ambulatory care sensitive condition or reported a mental or behavioral health condition, and whether the respondent or a family member received unemployment insurance benefits or benefits though the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or child care services or child care assistance from a local welfare agency or case manager.

Citation

Holahan, John, and Long, Sharon K. Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Second Quarter 2014. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-08-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36045.v3

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Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (71390), Ford Foundation, Urban Institute

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

As explained in the ICPSR Processing Notes in the codebook, ICPSR restricted three variables from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining the restricted data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to the restricted data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2014-06-03 -- 2014-06-20

Date of Collection

2014-06-03 -- 2014-06-20

Data Collection Notes

  1. The principal investigators did not provide many of the variables collected in the second round, specifically, the open-ended response variables, the variables for the Questions TQ46A, TQ46B, and TQ4E to TQ4H, the variables from the questionnaire module on child health and child health care (Questions QS1 to QS31), and many variables from the KnowledgePanel profile questionnaire.

  2. Additional information about this survey is available on the HRMS Web site.

  3. Demographic variables are provided by the KnowledgePanel.

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Sample

Each quarterly HRMS sample is drawn from the KnowledgePanel, a probability-based, nationally representative Internet panel maintained by GfK Custom Research. Beginning with the second quarter of 2013, the HRMS includes oversamples of adults with family incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level and adults from selected state groups based on (1) the potential for gains in insurance coverage in the state under the ACA as estimated by the Urban Institute's microsimulation model and (2) states of specific interest to the HRMS funders. Additional funders have supported oversamples of adults from individual states or subgroups of interest (including children). However, ICPSR received data only for adults in the general national sample and the income and state group oversamples.

Universe

Household population aged 18-64

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

The HRMS response rate is roughly five percent each quarter.

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Original Release Date

2015-03-09

Version History

2019-08-07 Variable Q7_F was removed from public dataset. An updated codebook excluding this variable was provided for public use. Current release will feature DS1 as public-use data only and DS2 as restricted-use data. Previous release included both public and restricted versions of DS1. Study title updated to include geographic information.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Holahan, John, and Sharon K. Long. Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Second Quarter 2014. ICPSR36045-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-08-07. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36045.v3

2017-05-23 The principal investigators added a new weight variable to the data file and the technical documentation was updated accordingly.

2015-03-09 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The HRMS weights reflect the probability of sample selection from the KnowledgePanel and poststratification to the characteristics of nonelderly adults in the United States based on benchmarks from the Current Population Survey and the Pew Hispanic Center Survey. Variables used in the poststratification weighting of the KnowledgePanel and the poststratification weighting of the HRMS include sex, age, race and ethnicity, primary language, education, presence of children in households, household income, family income as a percentage of FPL, homeownership status, internet access, urban or rural status, state group, and census region.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA). HMCA is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.