Description
For all persons, PUBMMX is a set of constructed monthly summary health insurance variables indicating whether they have any public health insurance in a given calendar month. Persons identified as covered by public insurance are those reporting coverage under TRICARE (TRIMMX), Medicare (MCMM), Medicaid or SCHIP (MAMMX), or other public hospital/physician programs (OPAMM and OPBMM). Persons covered only by state-specific programs that did not provide comprehensive coverage (STAMM) were not considered to have public coverage when constructing the PUBMMX variables. By adding PUBMMX to your data cart, you are in effect adding 12 monthly health insurance coverage variables (PUBJAX-PUBDEX), one variable for each calendar month.
Monthly Health Insurance Coverage Variables
- PUBJAX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in January (edited)
- PUBFEX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in February (edited)
- PUBMAX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in March (edited)
- PUBAPX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in April (edited)
- PUBMYX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in May (edited)
- PUBJUX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in June (edited)
- PUBJLX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in July (edited)
- PUBAUX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in August (edited)
- PUBSEX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in September (edited)
- PUBOCX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in October (edited)
- PUBNOX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in November (edited)
- PUBDEX: Covered by comprehensive public health insurance in December (edited)
Codes
This is a 1-digit numeric variable.
Universe
- 1996-2021: All persons.
Availability
- 1996-2021
Weights
- 1996-2021 : PERWEIGHT
