Released as SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, an ASCII data file, a SAS transport data file, a SAS V9 data file, an Excel file, and a Stata data file, the 2024 Full Year Consolidated Public Use File (PUF) provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2024. These data were collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. This PUF contains all the person-level variables related to survey administration, demographics, person-level priority conditions, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ), Cancer Self-Administered Questionnaire (CSAQ), food security (FS), financial well-being (FW), Economic Self-Administered Questionnaire (ESAQ ), access to care, employment, income, health insurance, health care utilization, and health care expenditures by event type and source of payment.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page.
*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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