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| MEPS HC-035: MEPS Panel 2 Longitudinal Data File |
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| Release date: May 2002
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This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 2 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 1997-1998 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 1997 and 1998 consolidated full-year files (HC-020 and HC-028, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 1997 and 1998, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 2 sample.
Update notes
| Documentation |
PDF (324 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook |
PDF (959 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (724 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (722 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (842 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (3.9 MB)
/ EXE (2.8 MB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (5.0 MB)
/ EXE (3.2 MB)
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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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