Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-179: 2015 Person Round Plan File

Release date: August 2017

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This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2015. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (281 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (87 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (41 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (15 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (20 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (931 KB) / EXE (853 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.2 MB) / EXE (965 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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