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MEPS HC-226: MEPS Panel 23 Three-Year Longitudinal Data File

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Release date: December 2022

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This file is a three-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 23 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2018-2020 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2018, 2019, and 2020 full-year consolidated data files (HC-209, HC-216, and HC-224, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in 2018, 2019, and 2020, 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 three-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 23 sample. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Readme file

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (454 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (16 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (1.5 MB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (1.3 MB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (1.3 MB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (126 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (5.8 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (6.8 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (7.1 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (5.3 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (60 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.