Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-239B: 2022 Dental Visits File

Release date: May 2024

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). 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, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2022 calendar year. This 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 dental event record includes the following: date of the dental event; type of provider seen; procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure; and a full-year person-level weight. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (400 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (196 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (48 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (9.6 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (13 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (8.2 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (464 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (608 KB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (710 KB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (544 KB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (2.3 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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