Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-244: MEPS Panel 26 Longitudinal Data File

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Release date: September 2024

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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, this public use dataset is a two-year longitudinal file of respondents to the MEPS Panel 26 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 2021-2022 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2021 and 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data Files (HC-233 and HC-243, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in both 2021 and 2022, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users 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 two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 26 sample. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (323 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (6.5 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (1.0 MB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (923 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (1.0 MB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (86 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (3.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (3.9 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (4.0 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (3.1 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (31 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.