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MEPS HC-025: 1998 Jobs File

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Release date: 10/26/2001

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This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1998. The file contains 1998 jobs level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the second Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the third Panel of the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (93 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (45 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (36 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (26 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (32 KB)
1990 Industry Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML
1990 Occupation Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (814 KB) / EXE (843 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (948 KB) / EXE (978 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.