Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-223: 2020 Person Round Plan File

Release date: September 2022

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The Person Round Plan (PRPL) public use file is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. 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 PRPL file is not a person-level file. Linking it to a MEPS full-year, person-level file requires users to make analytic decisions with an understanding of the complexity of the PRPL file. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (400 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (152 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (40 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (13 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (18 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (8.5 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (746 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (898 KB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (985 KB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (747 KB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (4.5 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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