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MEPS HC-010E: 1996 Emergency Room Visits File
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Release date: Spring 2000

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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1996. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during Rounds 1, 2, and 3. Emergency room visits reported in Round 3 and known to have begun after December 31, 1996, are not included on this file.

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables drawn from both the Household and Medical Provider Components for all emergency room visits on File 1.

For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation (File Codebook is included) PDF (221 KB) / HTML
SAS Programming Statements TXT (46 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 1 TXT (23 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 2 TXT (11 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 1 TXT (30 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 2 TXT (15 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File 1, ASCII format ZIP (188 KB) / EXE (218 KB)
Data File 2, ASCII format ZIP (89 KB) / EXE (118 KB)
Data File 1, SAS transport format ZIP (232 KB) / EXE (262 KB)
Data File 2, SAS transport format ZIP (114 KB) / EXE (143 KB)


Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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