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    • Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component Data Tools

    Metadata Updated: August 24, 2025

    The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component collects data on all members of sample households from selected communities across the United States. With the MEPS-HC Data Tools, users can explore trends and cross-sectional bar charts for nationally representative estimates of household medical utilization and expenditures, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health insurance coverage, accessibility and quality of care, treated medical conditions, and prescribed medicine purchases.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 8, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 24, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 8, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 24, 2025
    Publisher Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/de7f-8ncr
    Data First Published 2022-06-03
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Category National
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 009:33
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://datatools.ahrq.gov/meps-hc
    Harvest Object Id 216bf0b9-29a8-4dcc-9268-f794a85736b0
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://datatools.ahrq.gov/meps-hc
    Program Code 009:073
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8e01e761cded5fcf74d0efba66cbfd07407c3e9a335eb1e04720464ad4da39f4
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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