Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-059F: 2001 Outpatient Visits File

Release date: January 2004

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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.

For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (388 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (63 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (52 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (20 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (25 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (627 KB) / EXE (688 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (723 KB) / EXE (632 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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