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MEPS HC-036BRR: MEPS 1996-2022 Replicate File for BRR Variance Estimation

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Release date: August 2024

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This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996-2022 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, HC-097, HC-105, HC-113, HC-121, HC-129, HC-138, HC-147, HC-155, HC-163, HC-171, HC-181, HC-192, HC-201, HC-209, HC-216, HC-224, HC-233, and HC-243). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this person-level file contains the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2022 MEPS person-level public use files and a set of 128 sample indicators. These flags can be used in conjunction with the sample weights from the full-year sample files to construct the BRR replicate weights needed to calculate BRR variances. There is one record for each of the 461,276 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2022 public use files. The 1996-2022 combined variance stratum and PSU variables are released on HC-036. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (344 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (564 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (40 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (20 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (31 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (7.9 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (3.2 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (6.1 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (7.5 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (13 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (126 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.