Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

MEPS HC-036BRR: MEPS 1996-2007 Replicates for Calculating Variances File
Release date: November 2009


This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 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, and HC-113 respectively). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS programming statements) and in SAS transport format, this person-level file contains the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2007 MEPS person-level public use files and a set of 128 half sample indicators enabling the user to perform a balanced repeated replication (BRR) to calculate standard errors. There is one record for each of the 202,468 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2007 public use files. The 1996-2007 combined variance stratum and PSU variables are released on HC-036.

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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details