The Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 LHIDD 2000) contains 1 million randomly sampled beneficiaries.
Our DQA was meant to provide completeness, accuracy and overall performance indicators for the MCTS data of sampled beneficiaries.
Each year, for the sampled beneficiaries, all inpatient and outpatient claims for the study years were included.
The NHI sample files contain complete data of 1 000 000 randomly sampled beneficiaries from the original NHIRD, representing ∼5% of all enrollees in Taiwan.
Control subjects were selected from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database dataset, which contains complete data of 1,000,000 randomly sampled beneficiaries from the original NHIRD.
While the DQA findings provided quantitative indicators on the data integrity of the sampled beneficiaries' MCTS data, they did not unpack the implementation dynamics and root causes behind those numbers.
The rationale for selecting pregnant women and children in the stipulated time period was to ensure that all sampled beneficiaries were eligible to have received all scheduled vaccines under India's Universal Immunization Program UIPP).
This cohort dataset comprised 1,000,000 randomly sampled beneficiaries still enrolled in the NHI program during 2000 and collected all records on these individuals from 1995 to 2009 containing basic demographic information on insured residents (sex, age, region, and so on), along with medical records (including inpatient and ambulatory visits).
Methodology: A four tier stakeholder consultative approach was adopted for the evaluation; the first tier involved programme owners including staff members of UNICEF and UNFPA, the second tier involved state actors, the third tier involved non-state actors (NGOs/CBOs) and the fourth tier included sampled beneficiaries in specific locations where the programme was implemented.
We used the Permanent Sample of Beneficiaries which was, at the time of the study, a representative sample of 1/97th health insurance beneficiaries of the main Social Security scheme, the General Health Insurance Scheme, covering approximately 77 % of the French resident population.
