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hi all,

I have one specific and one general question with regards to
the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (1977) and the
National Medical Expenditure Survey (1987).  First, for the
NMCES, the ICPSR codebook (study number 8325, we also have 8627
and 9076) mentions that the study was done in 5 segments.  One
of these focussed on employment and income data.  But the dataset
has only minimal income and employment data.  The codebook contains
copies of the detailed questionnaire, but the resulting data don't
appear to be on the dataset.  Does anyone know if this data is
available elsewhere or if there exists an updated version of
the NMCES data?  (Sorry for the lack of detail, my client
has the codebook checked out - if anyone needs more detail
just let me know and I'll track it down).

Second, my client wants to compare data from the NMCES (77) with
the NMES (87).  I assume he's not the first one to think of
this, so if anyone has any advice on limitations, problems,
solutions, etc. with doing this, I'd appreciate it.

Private e-mail will be fine, and I'll summarize to the list
if there's sufficient interest.

thanks,
walt

Walter Davis                             WALTER_DAVIS@UNC.EDU
Department of Sociology and              ph:  (919) 962-1019
Health Data Analyst at the               fax: (919) 962-IRSS
Institute for Research in Social Science
UNC - Chapel Hill