Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-102D: 2006 Hospital Inpatient Stays File

Release date: October 2008

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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (304 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (155 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (49 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (15 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (19 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (243 KB) / EXE (311 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (302 KB) / EXE (370 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.

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