Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-152F: 2012 Outpatient Visits File

Release date: July 2014

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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program 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 utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit 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.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (323 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (113 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (55 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (22 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (27 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (418 KB) / EXE (453 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (555 KB) / EXE (548 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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