Research Catalog

Title

Survey of health services utilization and expenditures, 1970 [electronic resource].

Publication

Ann Arbor, MI : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
• National Opinion Research Center.
• University of Chicago. Center for Health Administration Studies.

Summary

This national survey was conducted to compare health services utilization and expenditures in 1970 with results of similar studies done in 1953, 1958, and 1964. In the survey, respondents from 3,763 families plus additional older individuals -- a total of 11,619 persons -- were interviewed in 1971. One or more persons in each family provided information regarding use of health services, the cost of such services, and how these costs were met for the calendar year 1970. Information was also collected on perceptions of illness and health, attitudes and opinions about medical care in the United States, and health beliefs. An attempt was made to verify all hospital admissions, physician visits, and insurance reports and claims. These verifications had two purposes: first, to determine if the reported care was, in fact, provided during the survey year, and second, to elicit more precise information than the families were likely to give on diagnoses, costs, kinds of treatment, and sources of payment for services. Verification data were obtained for over 90 percent of the hospital admissions and for two-thirds of the physician visits. Demographic data were also collected, including age, sex, race, education, occupation, income, and place of residence.

Series Statement

ICPSR ; 7740

Uniform Title

ICPSR (Series) ; 7740.

Subject

• Medical care surveys > United States
• Medical care > Utilization > United States
• Medical care, Cost of > United States
• Aging population
• Demographic characteristics
• Health attitudes
• Health behavior
• Health care costs
• Health care services
• Health expenditures
• Health insurance
• Health policy
• Hospitalization
• Insurance claims
• Insurance coverage
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical evaluation
• Medicare
• Mental health services
• Older adults
• Payments
• Public opinion
• Rural population
• Satisfaction
• Socioeconomic status
• Treatment
• Underclass

Genre/Form

• dataset.
• dataset – 1970.

Note

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on June 17, 2008).

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

File Type (note)

• Extent of collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + OSIRIS dictionary.

Event (note)

• Date(s) of collection: 1971.
• Time period: 1970.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: United States.

Cite As (note)

• Center for Health Administration Studies/National Opinion Research Center. SURVEY OF HEALTH SERVICES UTILIZATION AND EXPENDITURES, 1970 [Computer file]. Conducted by University of Chicago, Center for Health Administration Studies/National Opinion Research Center. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1981.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

OCLC

• ocm81467636
• SCSB-1298832

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library