Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-176: 2015 Jobs File

Release date: February 2017

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This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2015 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 2015. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for Panel 19 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 20 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (329 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (104 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (49 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (23 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (29 KB)
2007 Industry Codes File	PDF (238 KB) / HTML
2010 Occupation Codes File	PDF (236 KB) / HTML

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.0 MB) / EXE (950 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.2 MB) / EXE (1.0 MB)

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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