The Health Reform Monitoring Survey, or HRMS, is a nationally representative, internet-based survey of nonelderly adults launched in 2013 to provide timely information on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before data from federal surveys become available. Samples for the HRMS are drawn from Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel®, the nation’s largest probability-based online panel. The HRMS provides data on health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, health care affordability, and self-reported health status. Beginning in the second quarter of 2013, each round of the HRMS also contains topical questions focusing on timely ACA policy and implementation issues. In the first quarter of 2015, the HRMS shifted from a quarterly fielding schedule to a semiannual schedule, and then to an annual schedule in the first quarter of 2020. The design and content of the HRMS were also modified in the first quarter of 2020 to assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families’ access to health care, well-being, and ability to meet basic needs and support estimates for vulnerable population subgroups.

For each round of the survey, we make the HRMS instruments publicly available on this webpage roughly at the same time that we release new research products that use data from that survey round. In addition, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Urban Institute is partnering with the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan to make HRMS data available for public use through RWJF’s Health and Medical Archive on the ICPSR website nine months after each survey is fielded. The public use files contain data for the HRMS samples of approximately 7,500 adults, ages 18 to 64, derived from responses to the core and topical module questions in each round of the survey (the HRMS sample was expanded to 9,500 adults beginning in Q1 2017 and then reduced to 9,000 adults in Q1 2020). We provide documentation to assist users. The data are de-identified, and some variables in each dataset have been excluded or modified to protect the confidentiality of survey respondents.