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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC-98
PANEL 9 LONGITUDINAL DATA CODEBOOK
DATE: October 24, 2017

Variable Name: BPCHEK5
Description: TIME SNCE LST BLOOD PRES CHK (>17)-R5
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 1610
End: 1611

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY LONGWT
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
1
18,310
-8 DK
297
5,347,337
-7 REFUSED
26
541,469
-1 INAPPLICABLE
5,092
80,100,196
1 WITHIN PAST YEAR
8,358
171,716,441
2 WITHIN PAST 2 YEARS
1,136
21,208,373
3 WITHIN PAST 3 YEARS
511
9,341,820
4 WITHIN PAST 5 YEARS
164
3,204,972
5 MORE THAN 5 YEARS
290
5,347,831
6 NEVER
237
3,086,525
TOTAL
16,112
299,913,273


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