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MEPS HC-197H: 2017 Home Health File

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Release date: May 2019

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2017 calendar year. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in the 2017 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017).

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (427 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (66 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (40 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (13 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (17 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (104 KB) / EXE (640 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (144 KB) / EXE (680 KB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (165 KB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (145 KB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (716 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.