Research for Surveys

As part of the Tricare- Tidewater evaluation, CNA fielded a military beneficiary health care survey in the fall of 1992 to collect information on access, satisfaction, health status, and utilization. To supplement these data, and support the Tricare evaluation, we developed an administrative data set using claims data from the Civilian Health and Medical Program for the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), Biometrics records, and Medical Expense and Performance Reporting System (MEPRS) data. This administrative data set provides not only cost information but also detailed utilization records, including information about specific diagnoses and treatments. While working with the survey data, we observed internal inconsistencies in how people responded to the utilization section of the survey. These inconsistencies raised concerns about the veracity of the self-reported use measures. Given these concerns and the unique opportunity of having both survey and administrative measures of use for the same population, we thought it was appropriate to attempt to validate the self-reported utilization data against administrative records. In this paper, we compare the self-reported utilization data to the corresponding administrative utilization data, created from the CHAMPUS Quick Response Data File and Biometrics records, for a subset of our survey respondents. We look at incidences of overreporting and underreporting use in the survey data, and we attempt to explain these occurrences and the impact of this misreporting on aggre

The Marine Corps provides Professional Military Education (PME) for its noncommissioned officers. Each level of training is designed to provide the leadership skills necessary for advancement in rank. This research memorandum shows that prior performance, time in grade, length to end of active service, and operational commitments affect the selection of eligible Marines into some of the resident courses.

This is volume II of a two-volume report on the results of a study concerning alcohol and drug use in the Marine Corps. It contains eight appendixes presenting detailed data and analyses supporting the main text in Volume I. The questionnaire used in the survey is reproduced in appendix A; appendix B describes the survey methodology; appendix C contains tables giving the sizes of the populations and samples surveyed; appendix D addresses the accuracy of the results obtained from the survey; appendix E describes the composite measure, or index, developed for estimating the monthly consumption of alcoholic beverages; appendix F looks at the patterns of responses to the questionnaires and how consistent they were; appendix G contains tables showing the prevalence of alcohol and drug use by unit type, location, and pay grade; and appendix H shows the relationship between urinalysis test results and use of drugs at the time tested.

This paper relates stated intentions of enlisted Navy Selected Reservists to their future behavior.