Description
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PRELIMINARY VARIABLE:
Variable description may change once we confirm the universe and assess the comparability of this variable over time.
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For all persons, COVERTYPE reports the persons' health insurance coverage type recoded into a hierarchy. COVERTYPE includes three mutually exclusive categories and persons with more than one type of health insurance coverage were assigned to the first appropriate category in the following hierarchy:
- Private, including persons who had any private insurance coverage during the calendar year, including TRICARE/CHAMPVA.
- Public only, including persons who only had public coverage during the calendar year.
- Uninsured, including persons who were uninsured for the entire calendar year.
Codes and Frequencies
Comparability
The comparability of this variable over time has not yet been assessed.Universe
The universe for this variable has not yet been confirmed.
Availability
- 1996-2018
Weights
- 1996-2018 : PERWEIGHT