This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1999. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 2-5 for the third Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the fourth Panel of the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.
For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data. Readme fileUpdate notes
*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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