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MEPS HC-199: 2017 Medical Conditions File

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Release date: August 2019

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This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2017 MEPS Household Component. 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 household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2017 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2017 portion of Round 3 for Panel 22 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). ICD-10 codes are provided.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (282 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (71 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (54 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (5.4 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (8.1 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.4 MB) / EXE (1.9 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.8 MB) / EXE (2.3 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (2.2 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (1.9 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (7.2 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.