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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC010F CODEBOOK
1996 Outpatient Visits File
DATE:September 19, 2005

Variable Name: MEDPTYPE
Description: TYPE OF MED PERSON P TALKED TO ON VST DT
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 54
End: 55

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER96
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
185
2,481,966
-8 DK
37
565,783
-1 INAPPLICABLE
4,228
51,960,584
1 CHIROPRACTOR
3
24,530
2 DENTIST/DENTAL CARE PERSON
7
83,933
3 MIDWIFE
8
61,380
4 NURSE/NURSE PRACTITIONER
964
12,697,244
5 OPTOMETRIST
13
149,360
6 PODIATRIST
1
19,165
7 PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT
63
767,878
8 PHYSICAL THERAPIST
1,463
18,593,921
9 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
45
467,924
10 PSYCHOLOGIST
61
926,703
11 SOCIAL WORKER
55
676,166
12 TECHNICIAN
2,470
32,101,523
91 OTHER
354
4,241,069
TOTAL
9,957
125,819,128


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