Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-224: 2020 Full Year Consolidated Data File

HC-219 replaced by HC-224

Release date: August 2022

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Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2020. The file contains data collected in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020) and consolidates all of the final 2020 person-level variables onto one file. This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-219: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The HC-224 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables. 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 (1.5 MB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (3.6 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (495 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (291 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (357 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (48 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (7.1 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (8.8 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (12 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (7.5 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (78 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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