This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS and SPSS programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2009 calendar year. This file consists of 2009 data obtained in the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009).
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