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MEPS HC-043: 1998 Supplemental Public Use File
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Release date: December 2002

This data release, MEPS HC-043, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1998, and contains two data files. File 1 of HC-043 is a person-level file, containing health insurance, disability, access to care and language of interview variables. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1998 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-028) which contains all previously released 1998 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-028 documentation for further information. File 2 of HC-043 is an event-level file, containing a variable (SEETLKPV) provided to supplement the variables in the 1998 event-level Outpatient Department Visits File (HC-026F). Please refer to the HC-026F documentation for further information.

File 1 Readme File 2 Readme   Update notes

Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (233 KB) / HTML
Codebook File 1 (Person-level) PDF (157 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 2 (Event-level) PDF (17 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements File 1 TXT (73 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 2 TXT (12 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements available upon request

Data
File type**
Data File 1, ASCII format ZIP (538 KB) / EXE (568 KB)
Data File 2, ASCII format ZIP (48 KB) / EXE (77 KB)
Data File 1, SAS transport format ZIP (899 KB) / EXE (929 KB)
Data File 2, SAS transport format ZIP (62 KB) / EXE (92 KB)


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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