This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items for calendar year 1996.
This public use data set consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains the type of medical equipment obtained and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure variables.
SPSS and STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #1: 8/01/00
An updated version of File 1 of the HC-010C 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.
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