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.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• 1996-2021

Weights

• 1996-2021 : PERWEIGHT

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