Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-143: 2012 P16R3/P17R1 Population Characteristics

Release date: May 2013

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This public use data file is the seventeenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2012. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 16 and Round 1 of Panel 17 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (1.0 MB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (127 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (59 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (33 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (38 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.3 MB) / EXE (1.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (2.4 MB) / EXE (1.7 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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