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Subject: New MEPS Data Releases and Announcement of MEPS Restricted Data Availability at Census Bureau Research Data Centers (RDC's) (fwd)
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AHRQ is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with the Census Bureau to make AHRQ's restricted MEPS data available to qualified researchers through the Census Research Data Center (RDC) network. The RDC network currently consists of 9 regional datacenters in NY, NC, MI, IL, MD, CA, and MA. For more information on the Census Bureau Research Data Centers please see: www.ces.census.gov .
Proposals will be accepted by CES beginning July 1, 2007 to use AHRQ data sets. AHRQ will handle all proposal review and disclosure avoidance review for RDC projects using AHRQ data. If a researcher chooses to use a Census Bureau RDC for their project, the standard AHRQ data center fee will be waived. Standard Census RDC access charges, if any, will apply. Proposals to use AHRQ data at a Census Bureau RDC will be subject to the standard Census RDC proposal process, but will not have to meet Census Bureau standards, just AHRQ standards (Proposals to use confidential data from both the Census Bureau and the AHRQ must use the existing Census Bureau application procedure, and will also be reviewed by AHRQ, and the Internal Revenue Service if tax data is involved.)
All researchers will need to become Special Sworn Status (SSS) employees of the Census Bureau -- in case of incidental access to confidential Census Bureau or Internal Revenue Service data while in an RDC -- and will also be required to become National Center for Health Statistics agents (as AHRQ data is based on the National Health Interview Survey), and take the appropriate training for both roles.
Researchers currently using the Rockville AHRQ data center will be able to transfer their research to a Census RDC site once they become SSS employees. Contact the appropriate Census RDC Administrator for more information on the SSS process.
For more information on the proposal process or the datasets, see the AHRQ data center web site at http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/onsite_datacenter.jsp
List of Datasets that will be available:
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) :
a. Household Component-Insurance Component linked file (1996-1999, 2001) b. Nursing Home Component (1996) c. Medical Provider Component (except directly identifiable data) d. Two-Year, Two-Panel Files e. Area Resource File (county-level data that can be linked to MEPS-HC)
Please contact AHRQ at CFACTDC@AHRQ.HHS.GOV for complete details on additional non-public MEPS data available for RDC use.
Recent MEPS Data Products:
MEPS HC-091:2005 Jobs File
This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS and SPSS programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2005. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the ninth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the tenth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation. This file is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-091
MEPS/NHIS 2005 Link File: 2005 MEPS/2004 & 2003 NHIS Link File
All ten (1996-2005) MEPS/NHIS Link Files are included on one CD-ROM. The MEPS/NHIS Link Files CD is available by request only. The 2005 MEPS/NHIS Link File contains a cross-walk that will allow data users to merge the MEPS 2005 Full-Year Population Characteristics public use data file, HC-090, with the NHIS 2003/2004 person-level public use data files. In this linkage file, a record exists for each person in the HC-090 file. Sample persons in NHIS that do not link to any MEPS sample persons are not represented in the linkage file. Sample persons in the HC-090 file who do not link with the 2003 NHIS or 2004 NHIS respondent person sample have a value of 9999 for the NHIS link id. The HC-090 file covers calendar year 2005 and contains data from Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of the MEPS Panel 9 (which uses the 2003 NHIS as its sampling frame) combined with data from Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the MEPS Panel 10 (which uses the 2004 NHIS as its sampling frame). Confidentiality forms must be filled out and submitted to AHRQ before this file can be obtained. See HC-NHIS Link File ordering instructions for more information on how to obtain this file. See : http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/more_info_download_data_files.jsp#hc-nhis for more information on how to obtain this file. This file is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=LINK_2005HC/NHIS
MEPS HC-090: 2005 Full Year Population Characteristics
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 2005. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 9 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 10 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2005 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming. This file is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-090
Recent MEPS Publications:
MEPS Research Findings No. 26 Family-Level Expenditures on Health Care and Insurance Premiums among the U.S. Nonelderly Population, 2004
This Research Findings presents estimates on health care expenditures and health insurance premiums aggregated to the family level, for all nonelderly families in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. This file is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/Pub_ProdResults_Details.jsp?pt=Research%20Findings&opt=2&id=812
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