This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 1996 calendar year. This file consists of 1996 data obtained in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits, including the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the dental event; and whether or not medicines were prescribed.
The Dental Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the dental event and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.
SPSS and STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #2: 8/01/00
An updated version of File 1 of the HC-010B file was released on 8/1/00. This file is identical to the previous version with the exception of the condition variables (NUMCOND, evICDiX, evPROiX and evCCCiX), which were modified for a subset of records. At the present time users can obtain the correct set of linked condition variables for this file by using the updated condition-event link file provided as File 1 of the Appendix File, HC-010I, with the condition file, HC-006. See the HC-010I documentation for information on linking event files to the condition file.
Update #1: 6/30/00
File 1 of release HC-010B contains an error for the record with EVNTIDX='078640330019'. The correction is as follows: the variable NUMCOND should have a value of 0 rather than 1, the variable DVICD1X should have a value of '-1'rather than '786', and the variable DVCCC1X should have a value of '-1' rather than '133'.
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