Medicare Part D SAQ - 2007
              
OVERVIEW

   In early 2007, graduates received the respondent report and the 
   Medicare Part D questionnaire.  This went out to all living graduates 
   regardless of their 2004 participation - provided we knew where the
   graduate lived.
   
   Perhaps because of insufficient testing of the questionnaire there 
   were about 300 graduates who only completed the first page and 
   the last page, the fourth page. Questions on pages two and three were 
   therefore coded not ascertained.
  
   
BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

   IS001REM-IS002REM:  Graduate's prescription drug usage                
   
   IS003REM:           Graduate's understanding of new Medicare plan
  
   IS004REM:           Graduate enrolled in new Medicare plan?
   
   IS005REM-IS010REM:  Graduate's new enrollment details
   
   IS011REM-IS017REM:  Reasons Graduate didn't enroll in Medicare
   
   IS018REM-IS019REM:  Who's responsible for Grad not enrolling
   
   IS020REM-IS037REM:  Were various resources used for enrollment decision
   
   IS038REM-IS046REM:  Seek advice from particular person about enrolling?
   
   IS047REM:           Graduate change prescription coverage late 2006?
   
   IS048REM-IS049REM:  Old coverage details
   
   IS050REM-IS055REM:  Reason Graduate changed perscription coverage
   
   IS056REM:           Graduate's message to Washington
   
   IS057REM:           Grad leave comment?
   
  
CODING
 
 IS004REM, IS005REM
 Categories for 'Are you enrolled in the new Medicare prescription drug
 benefit?' were 'Yes, in a stand-alone Medicare plan', 'Yes, through a 
 Medicare Advantage or medicare HMO plan', and 'No.' 116 Graduates left 
 this blank and answered the follow-up questions. After reviewing their
 follow-up responses I coded them yes for IS004REM and don't know for 
 IS005REM.
 
 IS011REM-IS017REM
 Graduates was only permitted to mark one reason as the main reason. If
 two or more reasons were marked as the main reason then all reasons were
 recoded as important reasons.
  
 IS019REM
 This code set is an extention of the standard WLS relationship codes used
 for the 2004-2007 data.  The 500 codes were customized for this variable
 and likely won't be used elsewhere.
 Also, there were 48 people who didn't answer IS018REM but answered this 
 follow-up question. I recoded them don't know for IS018REM.
 
 
PROBLEMS

   No problems other than what is mentioned in the overview.
  
  
PEOPLE
 
   Conrad Warnke - Writing code to create analysis variables; making
   corrections to raw data, and writing the COR.
  
  
REFERENCES

   None.