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MEPS HC-026E: 1998 Emergency Room Visits File |
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Release date: 10/31/2001
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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during 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.
The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure variables drawn from both the Household and Medical Provider Components for all emergency room visits on File1.
For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.
Readme file
Update notes
Documentation |
PDF (219 KB)
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Codebook File 1 (Imputed expenditures) |
PDF (31 KB)
/ HTML*
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Codebook File 2 (Pre-imputed expenditures) |
PDF (22 KB)
/ HTML*
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SAS Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (76 KB) |
SAS Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (19 KB) |
SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (18 KB) |
STATA Programming Statements File 1 |
TXT (22 KB) |
STATA Programming Statements File 2 |
TXT (11 KB) |
Data File 1, ASCII format |
ZIP (200 KB)
/ EXE (230 KB)
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Data File 2, ASCII format |
ZIP (90 KB)
/ EXE (119 KB)
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Data File 1, SAS transport format |
ZIP (240 KB)
/ EXE (269 KB)
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Data File 2, SAS transport format |
ZIP (115 KB)
/ EXE (145 KB)
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— see Survey Questionnaires
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*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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