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MEPS HC-202: MEPS Panel 21 Longitudinal Data File

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Release date: September 2019

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This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 21 sample. 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, the persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2016-2017 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2016 and 2017 full-year consolidated data files (HC-192 and HC-201, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2016 and 2017, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 21 sample.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (350 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (5.1 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (1.1 MB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (974 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (1.1 MB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (7.8 MB) / EXE (8.4 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (9.8 MB) / EXE (10 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (9.6 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (11 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (78 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.