Medical Insurance Data Tabulations

The numbers of Medicare and Medicaid recipients identified from the 2002 Washington State Population Survey did not agree with known administrative counts for the two programs. The briefing paper Accounting for Medicare and Medicaid Recipients (pdf) addresses the misreporting of Medicaid and Medicare receipt in the 2002 State Population Survey. The tabulations for the both the 2006, 2004, and 2002 medical insurance-related questions are based on the new medical weighting methodology. 1998 and 2000 tabulations reflect the original demographic weighting methodology.

Non Medical Insurance Survey Questions

Tabulations Label Description
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_EMP Person received employer/union paid health insurance
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 EMP_I Employer/union paid imputation flag
2006         Q7P3E Policy holder on this plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_MDCR Person received Medicare
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 MDCR_I Medicare imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_OWN Person bought own health plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 OWN_I Own health plan imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_MAA Person received Medicaid or other DSHS medical assistance
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 MAA_I Medicaid/DSHS medical imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_MIL Person received military health plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 MIL_I Military health plan imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_BHP Person received Basic Health Plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 BHP_I Basic Health Plan imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_OUT Person received coverage from outside household
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 OUT_I Outside household imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 INS_OTH Person received other health coverage
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 OTH_I Other health coverage imputation flag
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 NUMPLANS Number of health plans
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 PRIMECOV Person's primary coverage
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 CUR_INS Person currently insured
  2004 2002 2000 1998 Q7P7 Health plan prior to Basic Health Plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 Q7P6 Reason person doesn't have health insurance
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 Q7P5 Health care plan available through job
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 Q7P3Z Everyone else in household has same health plan
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 WHICH Did not have same coverage as respondent
        1998 Q7P10 Number of months had health care coverage in 1997
        1998 Q7P10_I Number of months covered in 1997 imputation flag
        1998 INS97_7 Covered 7 or more months in 1997
        1998 INS97_12 Covered 12 months in 1997

Last modified: November 8, 2006
E-mail: OFM.Forecasting@ofm.wa.gov