Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Revamps Tables for Household Data

AHRQ has updated its Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)online Household Component summary tables with easy-to-use drop-down menus for various types of data on health care use, spending, population demographics, insurance coverage, access to care, medical conditions and prescription drug purchases, among others. The summary tables can be viewed either by year or as a trend over time. They provide frequently used summary estimates for the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population. Downloadable SAS and R codes are available for researchers seeking to replicate the tables from original MEPS files.