Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-019: 1997 Jobs File

Release date: 02/16/2001

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This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, 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 1997. The file contains 1997 jobs level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the first Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the second Panel of the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation (File Codebook is included)	PDF (116 KB) / HTML
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (35 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (26 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (32 KB)
1990 Industry Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML
1990 Occupation Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.4 MB) / EXE (1.5 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.9 MB) / EXE (1.9 MB)

Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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