Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-152H: 2012 Home Health File

Release date: June 2014

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2012 calendar year. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012).

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (345 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (66 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (37 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (16 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (22 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (85 KB) / EXE (202 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (121 KB) / EXE (221 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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