This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2021. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 23, Rounds 5-7 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 25, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 26 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 8 and 9, Panel 24 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The file includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including earnings types, hours and weeks worked, establishment size, industry and occupation codes, retirement and other benefits offerings, and health insurance availability.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page.
The MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.
*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.
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