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| MEPS HC-239A: 2022 Prescribed Medicines File |
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Release date: July 2024
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This file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2022. The Prescribed Medicines File contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, selected Multum Lexicon variables, etc.); the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full- year person-level weight.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page .
| Documentation |
PDF (768 KB)
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| Codebook |
PDF (251 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (59 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (355 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (359 KB) |
| R Programming Statements |
TXT (8.7 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (6.0 MB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (5.9 MB)
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| Data File, SAS V9 format |
ZIP (7.0 MB)
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| Data File, Stata format |
ZIP (6.9 MB)
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| Data File, XLSX format |
ZIP (32 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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