This public use file is one in a series of data files drawn from the 2022 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 2022 Person Round Plan (PRPL) File contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, or prescription medication coverage during calendar year 2022. These data are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Each record comprises data for a unique combination of insurance establishment, policyholder, interview round, insurance plan, and covered person. The PRPL File contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Because the PRPL File is not a person-level file, linking it to the 2022 Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-243) requires users to make analytic decisions that reflect an understanding of the PRPL file's complexity.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page.
*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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