MEPS Extract Codebook
The data are from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 1996. The MEPS is a random survey of Americans focusing on their health care spending, health status, and various demographics. There is a website for the MEPS here .
The variables, in columns, from left to right, are:
| Variable | Description | ||||||||||
| age | The person's age | ||||||||||
| sex | The person's sex, 1=male, 0=female | ||||||||||
| income | The person's family income in dollars | ||||||||||
| employed | The person's employment status, 1=employed, 0=not | ||||||||||
| insured | The person's insurance status, 1=insured, 0=not | ||||||||||
| health | The person's perceived health status
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| spending | The person's health spending (whether paid by the person or by an insurer) |