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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC-164: MEPS Panel 17 Longitudinal Data File
Release date: October 2015

Notes on viewing and downloading files
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This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 17 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2012-2013 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2012 and 2013 full-year consolidated data files (HC-155 and HC-163, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2012 and 2013, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 17 sample.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (316 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (1.4 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (1.3 MB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (1.1 MB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (1.3 MB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (8.0 MB) / EXE (5.6 MB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (13 MB) / EXE (7.5 MB)


Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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