Skip to main content
U.S. flag
Health and Human Services Logo

An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services

menu-iconMore mobile-close-icon
mobile-back-btn-icon Back
  • menu-iconMenu
  • mobile-search-icon
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Search All AHRQ Sites
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Español
  • FAQs
  • Email Updates
MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Font Size:
Contact MEPS FAQ Site Map  
S
M
L
XL
 
 
 
Download Data Files — Codebook

MEPS PROJYR08 CODEBOOK
MEPS DATA PROJECTED TO 2008
DATE: March 26, 2009

Variable Name: POVCAT
Description: FAMILY INCOME AS PERCENT OF POVERTY LINE
Format: 1.0
Type: NUM
Start: 18
End: 18

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTADJ08
1 Less than 1.00 times poverty line
14,189
39,864,220
2 1.01 to 1.24 times poverty line
4,523
14,096,777
3 1.25 to 1.99 times poverty line
12,616
44,510,494
4 2.0 to 3.99 times poverty line
21,854
96,939,210
5 4.00 or more times poverty line
20,198
116,812,933
TOTAL
73,380
312,223,634


Return to list of variables

""