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MEPS HC-178I: Appendix to MEPS 2015 Event Files

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Release date: August 2017

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This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2015 condition file (HC-180) with the MEPS 2015 event files (HC-178A through HC-178H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2015 prescribed medicines event file (HC-178A) with other 2015 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the "MEPS 2015 Condition-Event Frequency" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2015 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2015 condition file.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (877 KB) / HTML
Codebook File 1 (Condition Event - CLNK)	PDF (57 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 2 (Prescribed Medicines - RXLK)	PDF (57 KB) / HTML*
Table 1	PDF (185 KB) / HTML
SAS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (28 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (28 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (3.4 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (3.4 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 1	TXT (5.6 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 2	TXT (5.6 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File 1, ASCII format

ZIP (1.7 MB) / EXE (1.2 MB)

Data File 2, ASCII format

ZIP (339 KB) / EXE (371 KB)

Data File 1, SAS transport format

ZIP (2.0 MB) / EXE (1.3 MB)

Data File 2, SAS transport format

ZIP (388 KB) / EXE (370 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.