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MEPS HC-233: 2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File

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HC-228 replaced by HC-233

Release date: August 2023

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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS v9 file, a Stata file, and an Excel file, the 2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2021. This public use dataset contains variables and frequency distributions associated with 28,336 persons who participated in the MEPS Household Component (HC) in 2021. These data were collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-228: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The HC-233 file also includes these variables: Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (1.5 MB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (3.7 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (512 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (305 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (373 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (49 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (8.0 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (9.9 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (13 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (7.4 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (81 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.