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| MEPS HC-026D: 1998 Hospital Inpatient Stays File |
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Release date: 11/30/2001
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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1998 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 Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. 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 inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey.
The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, and whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure data.
For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.
Readme file
Update notes
| Documentation |
PDF (223 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook File 1 (Imputed expenditures) |
PDF (31 KB)
/ HTML*
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| Codebook File 2 (Pre-imputed expenditures) |
PDF (15 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (30 KB) |
| SAS Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (21 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (15 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (20 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (14 KB) |
| Data File 1, ASCII format |
ZIP (169 KB)
/ EXE (199 KB)
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| Data File 2, ASCII format |
ZIP (64 KB)
/ EXE (94 KB)
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| Data File 1, SAS transport format |
ZIP (199 KB)
/ EXE (229 KB)
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| Data File 2, SAS transport format |
ZIP (83 KB)
/ EXE (112 KB)
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— see Survey Questionnaires
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*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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