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MEPS HC-059H: 2001 Home Health File |
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Release date: December 2003
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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care 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 home health care during the 2001 calendar year. This file consists of 2001 data obtained in the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001).
For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.
Readme file
Update notes
Documentation |
PDF (109 KB)
/ HTML
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Codebook |
PDF (54 KB)
/ HTML*
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SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (50 KB) |
SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (15 KB) |
STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (21 KB) |
Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (87 KB)
/ EXE (148 KB)
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Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (112 KB)
/ EXE (233 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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