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MEPS HC-197B: 2017 Dental Visits File
Release date: May 2019

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2017 calendar year. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in the 2017 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (380 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (104 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (54 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (13 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (18 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (583 KB) / EXE (1.1 MB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (793 KB) / EXE (1.3 MB)
Data File, SAS V9 format ZIP (818 KB)
Data File, Stata format ZIP (899 KB)
Data File, XLSX format ZIP (2.7 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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