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| MEPS HC-118F: 2008 Outpatient Visits File |
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Release date: September 2010
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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2008 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 Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. 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 outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.
Update Notes
Update #3: 11/22/13STATA Programming Statements have been added. Update #2: 07/29/11The documentation for H118F, 2008 Outpatient Visits File, has been updated to reflect that OPDATEDD, day of visit, is no longer removed from the 2007 Outpatient Visits File. Update #1: 11/12/10The following files have been updated as of November 12, 2010:
HC-118F 2008 Outpatient Visits File
HC-118E 2008 Emergency Room Visits File
HC-118D 2008 Hospital Inpatient Stays File
For each file the day of the event has been added: OPDATEDD; ERDATEDD; IPBEGDD and IPENDDD, respectively.
In addition, a correction has been made to the weights for individuals age 65 and older. Any analyses done that includes this population prior to the weight correction will need to be repeated.
| Documentation |
PDF (202 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook |
PDF (193 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (56 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (22 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (27 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (491 KB)
/ EXE (559 KB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (622 KB)
/ EXE (690 KB)
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— see Survey Questionnaires
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*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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