This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year 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, HC-105, 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 the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2010 MEPS person-level public use files and a set of 128 half sample indicators enabling the user to perform a balanced repeated replication (BRR) to calculate standard errors. There is one record for each of the 257,609 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2010 public use files. The 1996-2010 combined variance stratum and PSU variables are released on HC-036.
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