Skip to main content
U.S. flag
Health and Human Services Logo

An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services

menu-iconMore mobile-close-icon
mobile-back-btn-icon Back
  • menu-iconMenu
  • mobile-search-icon
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Search All AHRQ Sites
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Español
  • FAQs
  • Email Updates
MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Font Size:
Contact MEPS FAQ Site Map  
S
M
L
XL
 
 
MEPS HC-041: 1996 Supplemental Public Use File
Release date: December 2002

Notes on viewing and downloading files
Printing tips
This data release, MEPS HC-041, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1996. The HC-041 data file is a person-level file, containing health insurance variables and a language of interview variable. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-012) which contains all previously released 1996 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-012 documentation for further information.

Readme file   Update notes


Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (159 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (274 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (41 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (28 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (38 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (263 KB) / EXE (293 KB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (700 KB) / EXE (730 KB)


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.

New search