Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-115: 2008 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-115 replaced by HC-121)

Release date: May 2010

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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2008. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 12 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 13 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2008 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (510 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (1.3 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (333 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (287 KB)
2003 Industry Codes File	PDF (73 KB) / HTML
2003 Occupation Codes File	PDF (18 KB) / HTML

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (7.2 MB) / EXE (7.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (10 MB) / EXE (10 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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