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MEPS HC-058: MEPS Panel 4 Longitudinal Data File

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Release date: December 2003

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This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 4 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 1999-2000 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 1999 and 2000 consolidated full-year files (HC-038 and HC-050, 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 1999 and 2000, 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 4 sample.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (326 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (1.1 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (949 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (840 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (982 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (4.9 MB) / EXE (3.4 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (7.4 MB) / EXE (4.6 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.