Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-189: 2016 Food Security File

Release date: July 2018

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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use dataset contains data on 13,500 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2016. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the two MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in Round 4 of Panel 20 or Round 2 of Panel 21. The family (RU) level records in this data can be linked to the 2016 Full Year Consolidated Data File to obtain additional data for the families included in this file.

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (347 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (71 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (30 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (5.6 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (8.1 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (202 KB) / EXE (738 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (247 KB) / EXE (783 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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