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2021 SIPP: Health Insurance Feedback Spell Fix
2021 SIPP: Health Insurance Feedback Spell Fix
Health insurance information collected in the SIPP’s Event History Calendar section uses feedback based on prior wave responses (also known as dependent interviewing) for Waves 2+ cases to help reduce respondent burden and reduce potential seam bias across waves.
Beginning in 2021 SIPP, data processing was modified to address false transitions in coverage resulting from incomplete health insurance feedback data. Cases impacted by the health insurance spell fix can be identified where the beginning spell month allocation flag is coded as ‘1= In universe, as reported’ and the ending spell month allocation flag is coded as ‘2 = Statistical imputation (hot deck)’.
The impacted end- month health insurance variables are:
EPR1EMONTH: End month of the private health insurance spell (line 1)
EPR2EMONTH: End month of the private health insurance spell (line 2)
EMC_EMONTH: End month of Medicare spell
EMD_EMONTH: End month of Medicaid/Medical Assistance spell
EML_EMONTH: End month of military health insurance spell
Page Last Revised - August 23, 2022
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