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| MEPS HC-197C: 2017 Other Medical Expenses File |
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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, 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 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).
Update notes
| Documentation |
PDF (418 KB)
/ HTML
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| Codebook |
PDF (73 KB)
/ HTML*
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| SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (34 KB) |
| SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (6.9 KB) |
| STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (10 KB) |
| Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (182 KB)
/ EXE (718 KB)
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| Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (234 KB)
/ EXE (771 KB)
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| Data File, SAS V9 format |
ZIP (269 KB)
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| Data File, Stata format |
ZIP (238 KB)
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| Data File, XLSX format |
ZIP (633 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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