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| MEPS HC-144C: 2011 Other Medical Expenses File |
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Release date: June 2013
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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2011 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, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2011 calendar year. This file consists of 2011 data obtained in the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011).
| Documentation |
PDF (327 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook |
PDF (68 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (40 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (7.8 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (11 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (131 KB)
/ EXE (246 KB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (181 KB)
/ EXE (278 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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