In Lesson 1, you explored the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics EBS Annual Bulletin on Employee Benefits. For
this assignment, you will further explore this source, focusing on health care statistics. Go to the Annual
Bulletin on Benefit Coverage
(Links to an external site.)
. Then, scroll down to Tables organized by benefit, select the Healthcare benefits link. This will take you to a
page entitled Employee Benefits Survey. Scroll down to Healthcare benefits: Access, participation, and take-up
rates to find the information you will need for this assignment.
Your Task
Select the data table link for Civilians and provide answers to the following:
Define the access rate, participation rate, and take-up rate. You may provide the exact definition for each as it
appears on this page. (Scroll down the page until you find the definitions in the footnotes.)
List the access, participation, and take-up health care rates for the following groups:
full-time and part-time,
union and nonunion
number of workers (1 to 99 workers and 100 or more workers only)
For 2a, 2b, and 2c, respectively, summarize the differences in each rate between groups (for example, about
the same, lower, or higher).
Reference
Employee Benefits 6th edition by Joseph J Martocchio
Sample Solution