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| MEPS HC-216: 2019 Full Year Consolidated Data File |
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| HC-212 replaced by HC-216 |
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Release date: August 2021
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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2019. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 23 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 24 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019) and consolidates all of the final 2019 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-212: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-216 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.
Update notes
| Documentation |
PDF (1.3 MB)
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| Codebook |
PDF (4.4 MB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (490 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (288 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (354 KB) |
| R Programming Statements |
TXT (48 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (8.6 MB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (10 MB)
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| Data File, SAS V9 format |
ZIP (12 MB)
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| Data File, Stata format |
ZIP (7.2 MB)
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| Data File, XLSX format |
ZIP (76 MB)
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— see Survey Questionnaires
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*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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