The March 2026 monthly data and the January 2026 data that were recently re-released by the Census Bureau are now available via IPUMS CPS. October 2025 data were not collected during the U.S. federal government shutdown.
Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
Covered by Medicare (original) - 2000
Unicon Corporation made the following notes about this variable:
Includes persons who are not enrolled in Medicare, but are covered by another household member's policy. See Appendix T.1 for Census defined conversions of new health insurance variables to old. This is the original release version of the variable, before the inclusion of the verification question. See Appendix T.6.
Universe
- Anyone in household covered by medicare (hmcare=1).
Availability
| Years | Jan | Feb | ASEC | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
