Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-026C: 1998 Other Medical Expenses File

Release date: 10/09/2001

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 1998 calendar year. This file consists of 1998 data obtained in the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998). The Other Medical Expense Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the medical expense and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.

File 1 Readme File 2 Readme Update notes

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (181 KB) / HTML
Codebook File 1 (Imputed expenditures)	PDF (16 KB) / HTML*
Codebook File 2 (Pre-imputed expenditures)	PDF (11 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements File 1	TXT (20 KB)
SAS Programming Statements File 2	TXT (16 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (8.9 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 1	TXT (12 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 2	TXT (8.4 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File 1, ASCII format

ZIP (135 KB) / EXE (164 KB)

Data File 2, ASCII format

ZIP (100 KB) / EXE (130 KB)

Data File 1, SAS transport format

ZIP (175 KB) / EXE (204 KB)

Data File 2, SAS transport format

ZIP (134 KB) / EXE (164 KB)

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.

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