Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data Release Schedule

MEPS Household Component public use data files (including documentation and codebooks) and Insurance Component summary data tables are released on this website on a regular annual schedule. The schedule for 2023 is as follows:

March 2023:

2021 Jobs File
2021 Full Year Population Characteristics File

April 2023:

1996-2020 MEPS-NHIS Link files

May 2023:

1996-2021 MEPS-NHIS Link Files
2021 Other Medical Expenses File
2021 Dental Visits File
2021 Home Health File

June 2023:

2021 Hospital Inpatient Stays File
2021 Emergency Room Visits File
2021 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File
2021 Outpatient Visits File

July 2023:

2021 Prescribed Medicines File
2021 Food Security File
2022 MEPS-IC Private Sector Tables

August 2023:

1996-2021 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure
1996-2021 Replicate File for BRR Variance Estimation
MEPS Insurance Component - Three-year Averages Private-sector State by Firm Size
Appendix to MEPS 2021 Event Files
2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File
2021 Person Round Plan File
2021 Medical Conditions File

October 2023:

2020-2021 MEPS Panel 25 Longitudinal Data File
MEPS Insurance Component Chartbook 2022
2019-2021 MEPS Panel 24 Longitudinal Data File

November 2023:

2022 MEPS-IC Public Sector Tables
2022 MEPS-IC Civilian Tables

December 2023:

2018-2021 MEPS Panel 23 Longitudinal Data File

Page last updated: October 27, 2023

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