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MEPS HC-010H: 1996 Home Health File
Release date: Spring 2000

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This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, this 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 in 1996. This file consists of 1996 data collected in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and includes variables describing home health events, including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment.

This public use data set consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the home health event and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables.

For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation (File Codebook is included) PDF (216 KB) / HTML
SAS Programming Statements TXT (41 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 1 TXT (19 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements File 2 TXT (5.9 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 1 TXT (26 KB)
STATA Programming Statements File 2 TXT (8.8 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File 1, ASCII format ZIP (81 KB) / EXE (111 KB)
Data File 2, ASCII format ZIP (38 KB) / EXE (67 KB)
Data File 1, SAS transport format ZIP (99 KB) / EXE (128 KB)
Data File 2, SAS transport format ZIP (45 KB) / EXE (75 KB)


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**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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