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MEPS HC-036: MEPS 1996-2010 Pooled Linkage Variance Estimation File
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Release date: December 2012

This file is provided for use with pooled data from the MEPS FY 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, HC-097, HC105, HC-113, HC-121, HC-129 and HC-138, respectively). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format, this person-level file contains 1996-2010 combined variance stratum and PSU variables, along with the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2010 MEPS person-level public use files. There is one record for each of the 257,609 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2010 public use files.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (300 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (43 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (14 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (5.0 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (7.0 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (1.0 MB) / EXE (741 KB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (2.0 MB) / EXE (1.2 MB)


Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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