Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-251: 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File

HC-247 replaced by HC-251

Release date: August 2025

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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2023. This public use dataset contains variables and frequency distributions associated with all persons who participated in the MEPS Household Component (HC) in 2023. These data were collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File contains the following variables previously released on the 2023 Population Characteristics File (HC-247): survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File also includes these variables: Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (1.3 MB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (3.3 MB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (476 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (279 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (341 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (46 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (4.8 MB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (6.1 MB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (8.0 MB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (4.5 MB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (47 MB)

Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
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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