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COVERTYPE
Health insurance coverage type (hierarchy)
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Description

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.

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Comparability

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Universe

  • 1996-2019: All persons.

Availability

  • 1996-2019

Weights

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