Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with Administrative Records (MEPS-ICAR)

The Insurance Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC) is an annual survey of employers that collects information on the employer’s health insurance offerings. There are two distinct samples fielded in the MEPS IC survey: the List sample and the Household (link) sample. While these samples are designed to address different survey goals, the two have been combined to make data collection more efficient. The U.S. Census Bureau serves as the data collection agent for the MEPS-IC survey. For more information, see the provided working paper: https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2022/adrm/CES-WP-22-29.html

• Administrative records

• Annually

• Last year/last 12 months

A process is used to link matching establishments' parent firms to their workforces using identifiers appearing in tax records. The linking process concludes by matching establishments to their own workforces by identifying the subset of their parent firm's workforce that best matches the expected size, total payroll, and residential geographic distribution of the establishment's workforce. The MEPS-ICAR significantly expands the capabilities of the MEPS-IC and presents many opportunities for analysts.

• Employer Identification Number (EIN)
• Business name
• Business address
• Establishment address
• Census file number (CFN)
• State FIPS code
• State abbreviation
• Zip code