Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-178H: 2015 Home Health File

Release date: May 2017

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2015 calendar year. This file consists of 2015 data obtained in the 2015 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015).

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (317 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (109 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (58 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (16 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (22 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (120 KB) / EXE (248 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (168 KB) / EXE (274 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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