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| MEPS HC-010B: 1996 Dental Visits File |
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Release date: Spring 2000
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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.
For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.
Readme file
Update notes
| Documentation (File Codebook is included) |
PDF (188 KB)
/ HTML
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (37 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (21 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (6.6 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (28 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (9.5 KB) |
| Data File 1, ASCII format |
ZIP (494 KB)
/ EXE (524 KB)
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| Data File 2, ASCII format |
ZIP (271 KB)
/ EXE (300 KB)
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| Data File 1, SAS transport format |
ZIP (633 KB)
/ EXE (663 KB)
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| Data File 2, SAS transport format |
ZIP (972 KB)
/ EXE (1.0 MB)
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— see Survey Questionnaires
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**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.
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