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MEPS HC-118D: 2008 Hospital Inpatient Stays File |
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Release date: September 2010
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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2008 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, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. 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 inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.
Update notes
Documentation |
PDF (320 KB)
/ HTML
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Codebook |
PDF (143 KB)
/ HTML*
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SAS Programming Statements |
TXT (49 KB) |
SPSS Programming Statements |
TXT (15 KB) |
STATA Programming Statements |
TXT (19 KB) |
Data File, ASCII format |
ZIP (208 KB)
/ EXE (276 KB)
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Data File, SAS transport format |
ZIP (254 KB)
/ EXE (322 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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