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The National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) series provides information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's use of services. The Household Survey was fielded over four rounds of personal and telephone interviews at four-month intervals. Baseline data on household composition, employment, and insurance characteristics were updated each quarter, and information on all uses of and expenditures for health care services and sources of payment was obtained. Public Use Tape 29 provides information on disability days and household-reported medical conditions for 1987. There are five data files in this collection. Part 1, Medical Conditions Data, contains one record for each medical condition reported by a respondent. Variables include information on whether the respondent saw or talked to a medical provider about the condition, beginning and ending dates of the condition, whether the condition was due to an accident, the body area affected by the condition, and whether the respondent or a doctor discovered the condition. In Part 2, Disability Days Data, a record represents a unique disability defined by the combination of disability type and disability period. Variables describe up to four different types of disabilities due to illness or injury that were collected over the four rounds of the interviews. The types of disabilities are work-loss days, school-loss days, bed days, and restricted-activity days. In addition, beginning and ending dates of the disability period, number of disability days, and medical conditions associated with the disability period are also included. Part 3, Disability Days to Medical Conditions Link File, contains the variables necessary to link each disability days record in Part 2 with one or more of the condition records in Part 1. Variables include the type of event this record links to, condition number, condition ID, event number, event ID, person ID, and provider number. Part 4, Medical Conditions to Medical Utilization and Expenditures Link File, contains the variables necessary to link each condition record in Part 1 with one or more of the records contained in NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: PRESCRIBED MEDICINE DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 14.1] (ICPSR 9746), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA ON HOME HEALTH CARE AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT PURCHASES AND RENTALS [PUBLIC USE TAPE 14.2] (ICPSR 9944), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, DENTAL VISIT DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 14.3] (ICPSR 9814), NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOSPITAL STAYS DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 14.4] (ICPSR 9840), or NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1987: AMBULATORY MEDICAL VISIT DATA [PUBLIC USE TAPE 14.5] (ICPSR 9881). Variables include original dwelling unit, person number, person identifier, condition number, condition ID, event number and identifier, provider number, and type of event this record links to. Part 5, NMES Household Survey Modified ICD-9-CM Label File, contains a record for each of the condition codes reported in the NMES Household Survey and the Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN).

全国医疗支出调查（National Medical Expenditure Survey, NMES）系列数据集提供了家庭及个人自付或代缴的医疗支出、此类支出的筹资来源，以及每位个体的医疗服务使用情况相关信息。本次家庭调查通过四轮面访与电话访谈开展，每轮间隔四个月。调查每季度更新家庭构成、就业状况、保险属性等基线数据，并收集全部医疗服务使用、医疗支出及支付来源相关信息。1987年版公开使用磁带29（Public Use Tape 29）提供了残疾天数与家庭上报疾病状况相关信息。本次数据集合集共包含5个数据文件：
第1部分：疾病状况数据（Medical Conditions Data）。每条记录对应一名受访者上报的单种疾病状况，变量涵盖受访者是否就该疾病咨询医疗服务提供者、疾病起止日期、该疾病是否因意外导致、受影响的身体部位，以及疾病发现主体为受访者本人还是医师。
第2部分：残疾天数数据（Disability Days Data）。每条记录代表一种由残疾类型与残疾周期组合定义的独特残疾情形，变量描述四轮访谈中收集的最多4种因疾病或损伤导致的残疾类型，包括误工天数（work-loss days）、缺课天数（school-loss days）、卧床天数（bed days）与活动受限天数（restricted-activity days）。此外，该数据集还包含残疾周期起止日期、残疾天数，以及与该残疾周期关联的疾病状况信息。
第3部分：残疾天数与疾病状况关联文件（Disability Days to Medical Conditions Link File）。该文件包含用于将第2部分的每条残疾天数记录与第1部分的一条或多条疾病状况记录进行关联的必要变量，包括关联事件类型、疾病编号、疾病ID、事件编号、事件ID、个人ID及服务提供者编号。
第4部分：疾病状况与医疗服务利用及支出关联文件（Medical Conditions to Medical Utilization and Expenditures Link File）。该文件包含用于将第1部分的每条疾病状况记录与以下1987年全国医疗支出调查公开使用数据集关联的必要变量：处方药数据[公开使用磁带14.1（Public Use Tape 14.1），ICPSR 9746]、家庭调查家庭医疗护理及医疗设备购置与租赁数据[公开使用磁带14.2（Public Use Tape 14.2），ICPSR 9944]、家庭调查牙科就诊数据[公开使用磁带14.3（Public Use Tape 14.3），ICPSR 9814]、家庭调查住院数据[公开使用磁带14.4（Public Use Tape 14.4），ICPSR 9840]，以及门诊医疗就诊数据[公开使用磁带14.5（Public Use Tape 14.5），ICPSR 9881]。变量涵盖原始居住单元、个人编号、个人标识符、疾病编号、疾病ID、事件编号及标识符、服务提供者编号与关联事件类型。
第5部分：NMES家庭调查修订版ICD-9-CM标签文件（NMES Household Survey Modified ICD-9-CM Label File）。该数据集为NMES家庭调查及美国印第安人与阿拉斯加原住民调查（Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives, SAIAN）中上报的每种疾病代码生成单条对应记录。