Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-042: 1997 Supplemental Public Use File

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Release date: April 2003

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This data release, MEPS HC-042, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1997, and contains three data files. File 1 of HC-042 is a person-level file, containing health insurance, disability, access to care, language of interview, long-term care, alternative care, preventive care and child care arrangement variables. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1997 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-020) which contains all previously released 1997 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-020 documentation for further information. File 2 of HC-042 is an event-level file, containing a variable (SEETLKPV) provided to supplement the variables in the 1997 event-level Outpatient Department Visits File (HC-016F). Please refer to the HC-016F documentation for further information. File 3 of HC-042 contains data from the MEPS Caregiver (CG) supplement, which for individuals in MEPS with certain limitations, collected information on: 1) care provided by other household members; and 2) individuals (outside of the household) who could potentially provide assistance. The unit of analysis of File 3 is the MEPS person-potential caregiver.

File 1 Readme File 2 Readme File 3 Readme Update notes

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (272 KB) / HTML
Codebook File 1 (Person-level)	PDF (911 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 2 (Event-level)	PDF (36 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 3 (Caregiver-level)	PDF (57 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (123 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (12 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 3	TXT (22 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (112 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (3.4 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 3	TXT (16 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 1	TXT (137 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 2	TXT (5.4 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 3	TXT (20 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File 1, ASCII format

ZIP (1.6 MB) / EXE (1.6 MB)

Data File 2, ASCII format

ZIP (71 KB) / EXE (100 KB)

Data File 3, ASCII format

ZIP (363 KB) / EXE (393 KB)

Data File 1, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.6 MB) / EXE (1.7 MB)

Data File 2, SAS transport format

ZIP (91 KB) / EXE (121 KB)

Data File 3, SAS transport format

ZIP (442 KB) / EXE (472 KB)

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.