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MEPS HC-036: MEPS 1996-2019 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure
Release date: July 2021

Notes on viewing and downloading files
Printing tips
This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996-2019 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, HC-097, HC-105, HC-113, HC-121, HC-129, HC-138, HC-147, HC-155, HC-163, HC-171, HC-181, HC-192, HC-201, HC-209, and HC-216). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this person-level file contains 1996-2019 combined variance stratum and PSU variables, along with the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2019 MEPS person-level public use files. There is one record for each of the 433,143 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2019 public use files. externallink.



Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (358 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (302 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (31 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (6.5 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (10 KB)
R Programming Statements TXT (4.5 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (2.4 MB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (3.7 MB)
Data File, SAS V9 format ZIP (5.0 MB)
Data File, Stata format ZIP (3.6 MB)
Data File, XLSX format ZIP (16 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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