Update Notes
MEPS
HC-012: 1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File
Update #6: 11/22/13
STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #5: 12/12/07
The variable FOODCT96 on the HC-012 data file should not be used because
it is based on an invalid question in the survey instrument. This question asks "About how much did the
family pay each month for food stamps?" when in fact, as of 1979, the food stamp program no longer maintained
a purchase requirement. All responses are considered invalid.
Update #4: 08/03/01
On page C-76 of the documentation
for the 1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-012), the sample
sizes for
MEPS families had been reported as 8,605 for cases with
(WTFAMF96>0 & FMRS1231=1) and 8,652 for cases with
WTFAMF96>0. These sample sizes have been updated to 8,586 and
8,655 respectively.
Update #3: 07/18/01
The version of the zipped SAS Transport HC-012 file, H12SSP.ZIP, which was added to this
site on 6/1/01, was replaced on 7/2/01 in order to correct an
error in that file.
Update #2: 06/06/01
Data for BIRTH96 and RSNINHOS were collected in different sections of the MEPS instrument. As a result, an inconsistency was noted between the number of births (BIRTH96)
on HC-012 and the number of deliveries (RSNINHOS=4) and the number of births (RSNINHOS=5) on the Hospital Stays File (HC-010D). It is recommended that analysts use RSNINHOS to identify the number of births and/or deliveries that occurred in 1996.
Update
#1: 04/12/01
AHRQ has released an update
of the prescribed medicine variables previously released on the
October 2000 version of the MEPS HC-012: 1996 Full Year
Consolidated File. It was recently discovered that there is an
inaccuracy in the number of times a household reported
purchasing or otherwise obtaining a prescription drug in a
particular round for a small percentage of household-reported
medications. The variables that have been updated are TOTEXP96
-- TOTOSR96 and RXTOT96 -- RXOSR96. This inaccuracy is due to an
instrument design flaw which caused interviewer error in
isolated cases resulting in misreported large numbers of
prescription refills for a medicine in a given round. In
addition, prescribed medicine events in which a household
respondent did not know/remember the number of times a certain
prescribed medicine was purchased or otherwise obtained in a
particular round were inadvertently excluded. After making
additional adjustments for consistency with the 1997 MEPS
prescription data editing, the cumulative effect of these
corrections resulted in an 8.3 percent decline in 1996 MEPS
prescribed medicine expenditures (from $71.2 to $65.3 billion)
and an 11.9 percent decline in 1996 prescription drug
utilization (from 2.116 to 1.865 billion prescriptions) when
comparing the adjusted to the original release. Moreover, these
adjustments result in a very modest reduction in the overall
MEPS 1996 expenditure estimate of just 1.1 percent (from $554
billion to $548 billion).
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