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2020 SIPP: Missing Values for Some Health Insurance Variables
In 2020 SIPP, some cases have incorrect missing values in health insurance variables EHEMPLY1, EPRIVPLAN1, EHDEDPLN1, EMDPLAN, and EMILITYPE.
Data users should follow the guidelines below if they want to identify these cases in the 2020 public use datasets:
- In the 2020 data, these cases have missing values in the variable’s corresponding status flag. For example, AHDEDPLN1 = . identifies those cases where EHDEDPLN1 has an incorrect missing value instead of 1 = Yes or 2 = No.
Below are the five health insurance variables, their corresponding status flags and edited monthly indicators:
- EHEMPLY1, AHEMPLY1 (Status flag), EPR1MTH (Edited monthly indicator)
- EPRIVPLAN1, APRIVPLAN1 (Status flag), EPR1MTH (Edited monthly indicator)
- EHDEDPLN1, AHDEDPLN1 (Status flag), EPR1MTH (Edited monthly indicator)
- EMDPLAN, AMDPLAN (Status flag), EMDMTH (Edited monthly indicator)
- EMILITYPE, AMILITYPE (Status flag), EMLMTH (Edited monthly indicator)
Page Last Revised - December 12, 2022
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