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MEPS HC-241: 2022 Medical Conditions File

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Release date: August 2024

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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 Medical Conditions File is one in a series of public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). It provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2022. Each record represents one current medical condition reported for a person during 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. Person-level data (e.g., demographic or health insurance characteristics) from the 2022 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-243) can be merged to the records in this file using the DUPERSID variable. Data from this file also can be merged to the 2022 MEPS Event Files (HC-239A, and HC-239D through HC-239H) by using the link variables provided in the 2022 MEPS Appendix File (HC-239I). For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

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Update 11/2024
An error in data processing for the 2022 MEPS Medical Conditions PUF resulted in 7,655 extra conditions records on the file that do not link to 2022 medical events or prescription medicines. These records can be identified using the ERCOND, HHCOND, IPCOND, OBCOND, OPCOND, and RXCOND variables. For the erroneous extra records, ERCOND, HHCOND, IPCOND, OBCOND, OPCOND, and RXCOND are equal to 2, indicating that the condition record does not link to any medical event or prescription medicine.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (708 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (115 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (74 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (7.4 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (10 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (7.8 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (1.0 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (1.3 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (1.4 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (1.1 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (6.2 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.