Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-056: 2001 Jobs File

Release date: September 2003

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This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2001 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 2001. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the fifth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the sixth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (65 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (91 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (49 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (24 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (31 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 (1.1 MB) / EXE (1.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.3 MB) / EXE (1.4 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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