Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-032: 1999 Jobs File

Release date: April 2002

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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.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (70 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (51 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (40 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (8.3 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (32 KB)
1990 Industry Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML
1990 Occupation Codes File	PDF (29 KB) / HTML

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.2 MB) / EXE (1.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.6 MB) / EXE (1.6 MB)

Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
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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