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The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Learn more about MEPS.

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What's New Highlights
Upcoming Workshop
Save the date: AHRQ will be conducting a two-day hands-on HCUP and MEPS Data Users Workshop at the AHRQ Data Center in Rockville, Maryland, September 24–25, 2008. For more information, go to Workshops & Events.

New Publications
In 2002, there were 154.1 million antidepressant prescription purchases in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, and by 2005, rose to 169.9 million antidepressant purchases — from Statistical Brief 206: Antidepressants Prescribed by Medical Doctors in Office Based and Outpatient Settings by Specialty for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2002 and 2005

New Data Files
MEPS HC-100: 2006 Jobs File contains jobs-level data from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC).

MEPS HC-099: 2006 Full Year Population Characteristics File released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2006.

MEPS LINK_2006HC/NHIS: 2006 MEPS/2005 & 2004 NHIS Link File contains a cross-walk that will allow data users to merge the MEPS 2006 Full-Year Population Characteristics public use data file, HC-099, with the NHIS 2004/2005 person-level public use data files.

New Questionnaires
2006 Adult Self-Administered and 2006 Diabetes Care Survey Questionnaires are now available. To access copies of the questionnaires, go to the Household Survey Supplemental paper questionnaires section.

Questionnaires from the 2006 MEPS Household Survey Household are now available. To access a listing of all 42 sections in the questionnaire, go to Household Survey–Questionnaire section.
To access a list of all the latest items posted on our Web site, visit What's New.

 
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