MEPS Panel 2 Weight. The person level weight for MEPS Panel 2 was developed using the MEPS Round 1 person-level weight as a “base” weight. For key, in-scope respondents who joined an RU after Round 1, the Round 1 family weight served as a “base” weight. The weighting process included an adjustment for nonresponse over Round 2 and the 1997 portion of Round 3 as well as poststratification to the same population control figures for December 1997 used for the MEPS Panel 1 weights. The same five variables employed for Panel 1 poststratification (census region, MSA status, race/ethnicity, sex, and age) were used for Panel 2 poststratification. Similarly, for Panel 2, key, responding persons not in- scope on December 31, 1997 but in-scope earlier in the year retained, as their final Panel 2 weight, the weight after the nonresponse adjustment. Note that the MEPS Round 1 weights (for both panels with one exception as noted below) incorporated the following components: the original household probability of selection for the NHIS; ratio-adjustment to NHIS-based national population estimates at the household (occupied dwelling unit) level; the probability of selection of dwelling units associated with the oversampling of five population domains of analytic interest (for Panel 2 only); adjustment for nonresponse at the dwelling unit level for Round 1; and poststratification to figures at the family and person level obtained from the March 1997 CPS data base. The five oversampled domains for Panel 2 were households with: persons with functional impairments; children with limitations in activity; individuals 18-64 expected to incur high medical expenditures based on a statistical model; persons with family incomes expected to be below 200 percent of poverty based on a statistical model; and adults with other impairments.
MEPS Panel 2 Weight. The person level weight for MEPS Panel 2 was developed using the 1997 full year weight for an individual as a “base” weight for survey participants present in 1997. For key, in-scope respondents who joined a RU some time in 1998 after being out of scope in 1997, the 1997 family weight associated with the family the person joined served as a “base” weight. The weighting process included an adjustment for nonresponse over Rounds 4 and 5 as well as poststratification to population control figures for December 1998. These control figures were derived by scaling back the population totals obtained from the March 1998 CPS to reflect the December, 1998 CPS estimated population distribution across age and sex categories as of December, 1998. Variables used in the establishment of person level poststratification control figures included: census region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West); MSA status (MSA, non-MSA); race/ethnicity (Hispanic, black but non-Hispanic, and other); sex, and age. Overall, the weighted population estimate for the civilian, noninstitutionalized population on December 31, 1998 is 270,114,457. Key, responding persons not in-scope on December 31, 1998 but in-scope earlier in the year retained, as their final Panel 2 weight, the weight after the nonresponse adjustment.
MEPS Panel 2 Weight. The person level weight for MEPS Panel 3 was developed using the MEPS Round 1 person-level weight as a ‘base” weight. For key, in-scope respondents who joined a RU after Round 1, the Round 1 family weight served as a “base” weight. The weighting process included an adjustment for nonresponse over Round 2 and the 1998 portion of Round 3 as well as poststratification to the same population control figures for December 1998 used for the MEPS Panel 2 weights. The same five variables employed for Panel 2 poststratification (census region, MSA status, race/ethnicity, sex, and age) were used for Panel 3 poststratification. Similarly, for Panel 3, key, responding persons not in- scope on December 31, 1998 but in-scope earlier in the year retained, as their final Panel 3 weight, the weight after the nonresponse adjustment. Note that the MEPS round 1 weights (for both panels with one exception as noted below) incorporated the following components: the original household probability of selection for the NHIS; ratio-adjustment to NHIS-based national population estimates at the household (occupied dwelling unit) level; adjustment for nonresponse at the dwelling unit level for Round 1; and poststratification to figures at the family and person level obtained from the March 1998 CPS data base.
