National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS) CATI Questionnaire

This questionnaire was used to collect data for the 1994 National Employer Health Insurance
Survey (NEHIS).  The method of data collection, Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
(CATI), was selected because of its flexibility in managing the large NEHIS sample and its
suitability for administering complex questionnaire instruments.  

Since the CATI questionnaire consists of hundreds of pages of screens, data users may instead
wish to access the more streamlined NEHIS self-administered questionnaire which includes all of
the analytically relevant CATI data items.  This abbreviated questionnaire can be accessed as
Appendix III in the report, Plan and Operations of the National Employer Health Insurance
Survey, at  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/other/miscpub/miscpub.htm.  

Either the CATI instrument or the self-administered questionnaire was used for all establishments
and governments with the exception of self-employed individuals with no employees (SENE's). 
Because of the small SENE sample size and the relative simplicity of the questions asked of those
respondents, SENEs were interviewed by telephone using a paper questionnaire.  The SENE
questionnaire is included as Appendix III in the report, Health Insurance Coverage for the Self-
Employed With No Employees, and can also be accessed at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/other/miscpub/miscpub.htm.     

For each business establishment the CATI questionnaire includes the following sections:
          Section A -    Number of Employees
          Section B -    Number of Employees Nationwide
          Section C -    Number of Employees by Full-time and Part-time Status
          Section D -    Eligibility for Health Plan
          Section E -    Enumeration of Plans
          Section F -    Enumeration of Plans by Establishment
          Section H -    Enrollees
          Section N -    Employers Not Offering Health Insurance
          Section X -    Enrollees For All Plans for the Firm
     
For each sampled or sub-sampled health insurance plan offered by the establishment the CATI
questionnaire includes the following sections:
          Section J -    Total Plan Costs
          Section L -    Premiums
          Section P -    Plan Deductibles, Coinsurance, and Copayments
          Section S -    Covered Services
          Section Z -    Total Plan Costs for the Firm