Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-041: 1996 Supplemental Public Use File

Release date: December 2002

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This data release, MEPS HC-041, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1996. The HC-041 data file is a person-level file, containing health insurance variables and a language of interview variable. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-012) which contains all previously released 1996 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-012 documentation for further information.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (159 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (274 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (41 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (28 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (38 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (263 KB) / EXE (293 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (700 KB) / EXE (730 KB)

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.

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Update #2: 11/22/13

Update #1: 05/06/03