Community Tracking Study Household Survey, 2000-2001: [United States]

This collection comprises the third round of the Community
Tracking Study (CTS) Household Survey. The CTS, sponsored by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national study designed to track
changes in the health care system and the effects of those changes on
people. Fifty-one metropolitan areas and nine nonmetropolitan areas
were randomly selected to form the core of the CTS and to be
representative of the nation as a whole. As in the first two rounds of
the Household Survey (ICPSR 2524 and 3199), the third round was
administered to households in the 60 CTS sites and to a supplemental
national sample of households. Respondents provided information about
household composition and demographic characteristics, health
insurance coverage, use of health services, unmet health care needs,
out-of-pocket expenses for health care, usual source of care, patient
trust and satisfaction, last visit to a medical provider, health
status and presence of chronic health conditions, risk behaviors and
smoking, and employment, earnings, and income. A new set of sample
design variables was added to the third round data for variance
estimation by statistical software packages other than SUDAAN.