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MEPS HC-204: 2018 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-204 replaced by HC-209)
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Release date: February 2020

Notes on viewing and downloading files
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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 file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2018. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 22 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 23 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, person-level conditions, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, health insurance, and person-level medical care use counts. The 2018 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.

User Note 8/28/2020: Please note the variance estimation strata (VARSTR) and primary sampling units within these strata (VARPSU) for this public use file have not been updated. Point estimates will not be impacted when the VARSTR and VARPSU variables are updated, but standard errors will change.



Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (930 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (4.0 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (328 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (219 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (267 KB)
2007 Industry Codes File PDF (238 KB) / HTML
2010 Occupation Codes File PDF (236 KB) / HTML

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (5.4 MB) / EXE (5.9 MB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (6.8 MB) / EXE (7.4 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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