This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2001 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS and SPSS programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2001 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2001 portion of Round 3 for Panel 6 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001).
This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data. Readme file
*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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