Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

AHRQ is pleased to announce the recent release of the following MEPS Public Use File: MEPS HC-129: 2009 Full Year Consolidated Data FileRelease Date: November 2011
Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2009. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 13 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 14 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009) and consolidates all of the final 2009 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-123: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-129 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables. The HC-129 file is on the MEPS Web site at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-129