Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

Font Size:

MEPS Home

About MEPS

:: Survey Background

:: Workshops & Events

:: Data Release Schedule

Survey Components

:: Household

:: Insurance/Employer

:: Medical Provider

:: Survey Questionnaires

Data and Statistics

:: Data Overview

:: MEPS Topics

:: Publications Search

:: MEPS Data Tools (HC/IC)

:: Data Files

:: Data Centers

Communication

:: What's New

:: Mailing List

:: Discussion Forum

:: Participants' Corner

MEPS HC-036: MEPS 1996-2020 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure

printer-friendly

Release date: August 2022

	Notes on viewing and downloading files
	Printing tips

This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996-2020 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, HC-097, HC-105, HC-113, HC-121, HC-129, HC-138, HC-147, HC-155, HC-163, HC-171, HC-181, HC-192, HC-201, HC-209, HC-216, and HC-224). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this person-level file contains 1996-2020 combined variance stratum and PSU variables, along with the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2020 MEPS person-level public use files. There is one record for each of the 442,093 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2020 public use files. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (364 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (274 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (31 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (6.6 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (10 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (5.4 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (2.8 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (3.7 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (5.0 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (3.8 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (17 MB)

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.