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MEPS HC-077C: 2003 Other Medical Expenses File |
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Release date: August 2005
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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2003 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 2003 calendar year. This file consists of 2003 data obtained in the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).
Readme file
Update notes
Documentation |
PDF (357 KB)
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Codebook |
PDF (89 KB)
/ HTML*
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SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (39 KB) |
SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (7.8 KB) |
STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (11 KB) |
Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (213 KB)
/ EXE (281 KB)
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Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (293 KB)
/ EXE (361 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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