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MEPS HC-239I: Appendix to MEPS 2022 Event Files

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Release date: August 2024

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This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Appendix to MEPS 2022 Event Files, or Conditions-Event Link (CLNK) File, is used for linking the MEPS 2022 Medical Conditions File (HC-241) with the MEPS 2022 Event Files (HC-239A, and HC-239D through HC-239H). The file contains data collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (276 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (44 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (25 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (3.5 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (5.6 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (7.2 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.7 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (2.4 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (2.0 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (1.6 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (5.2 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.