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| MEPS HC-221: 2020 Food Security File |
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Release date: September 2022
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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, Stata, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS dataset, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use dataset contains data on 11,992 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2020. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the three MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in Round 6 of Panel 23, Round 4 of Panel 24, or Round 2 of Panel 25. This file can be linked to the 2020 Full Year Consolidated file by DUID and RULETR42 to obtain additional data for the families included in this file. The reference person of the RU can be identified in the Full Year Consolidated data file by the variable REFPRS42.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page .
| Documentation |
PDF (391 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook |
PDF (80 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (28 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (5.9 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (8.4 KB) |
| R Programming Statements |
TXT (7.4 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (158 KB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (227 KB)
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| Data File, SAS V9 format |
ZIP (212 KB)
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| Data File, Stata format |
ZIP (192 KB)
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| Data File, XLSX format |
ZIP (582 KB)
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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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