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MEPS HC-220B: 2020 Dental Visits File
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Release date: August 2022

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R 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 2020 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. Each dental event record includes the following: date of the dental event, type of provider seen, procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure, and a full-year person-level weight. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub pageexternallink.



Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (472 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (227 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (51 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (12 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (16 KB)
R Programming Statements TXT (8.6 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (455 KB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (619 KB)
Data File, SAS V9 format ZIP (704 KB)
Data File, Stata format ZIP (532 KB)
Data File, XLSX format ZIP (2.3 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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