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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC010A CODEBOOK
1996 Prescribed Medicines File
DATE:September 16, 2005

Variable Name: RXBEGYR
Description: YEAR PERSON STARTED TAKING MEDICINE
Format: 4.0
Type: NUM
Start: 51
End: 54

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER96
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
774
9,946,556
-8 DK
4,830
61,109,486
-7 REFUSED
50
680,174
-1 INAPPLICABLE
58,737
753,458,173
99 HAS NOT YET TAKEN/USED
267
3,275,571
1909-1997 YEAR
82,650
1,036,934,239
TOTAL
147,308
1,865,404,199


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