Medical Expenditure Panel Survey PUF Codebook

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MEPS HC016D CODEBOOK

1997 Hospital Inpatient Stays File

DATE:September 20, 2005

Variable Name:	IPBEGYR
Description:	EVENT START DATE - YEAR (4-DIGIT)
Format:	4.0
Type:	NUM
Start:	55
End:	58

VALUE	UNWEIGHTED	WEIGHTED BY WTDPER97
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED	5	35,625
-8 DK	2	13,332
1996	45	341,581
1997	3,658	27,521,631
TOTAL	3,710	27,912,169

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