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MEPS HC-213I: Appendix to MEPS 2019 Event Files

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Release date: August 2021

	Notes on viewing and downloading files
	Printing tips

This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains two data files, the condition-event link file (CLNK) and the prescribed medicines-event link file (RXLK), both of which are provided in ASCII (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information) and SAS data set, SAS transport file, Stata data set, and Excel file versions. File 1, the H213IFI or CLNK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2019 Conditions file (HC-214) with the MEPS 2019 event files (HC-213A through HC-213H); File 2, the H213IF2 or RXLK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2019 prescribed medicines event file (HC-213A) with other MEPS 2019 event files.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (202 KB) / HTML
Codebook File 1	PDF (42 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 2	PDF (42 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (25 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (25 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (3.5 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)
R Programming Statements 1	TXT (7.2 KB)
R Programming Statements 2	TXT (7.2 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File 1, ASCII format

ZIP (2.3 MB)

Data File 2, ASCII format

ZIP (387 KB)

Data File 1, SAS transport format

ZIP (2.7 MB)

Data File 2, SAS transport format

ZIP (453 KB)

Data File 1, SAS V9 format

ZIP (2.6 MB)

Data File 2, SAS V9 format

ZIP (449 KB)

Data File 1, Stata format

ZIP (2.3 MB)

Data File 2, Stata format

ZIP (386 KB)

Data File 1, XLSX format

ZIP (6.4 MB)

Data File 2, XLSX format

ZIP (1.0 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.