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    • Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component Variable Explorer

    Metadata Updated: July 16, 2025

    The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component collects data on all members of sample households from selected communities across the United States. The MEPS-HC Variable Explorer Tool provides a quick and easy way to search across MEPS Public Use Files for variables and files needed for users' research projects.

    Access & Use Information

    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 July 16, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 8, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date July 16, 2025
    Publisher Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/dfw3-qjdi
    Data First Published 2022-06-03
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
    Public Access Level public
    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#varexpLabel
    Harvest Object Id 3afa7109-1f49-404d-b3d7-db6b42b39770
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://datatools.ahrq.gov
    Program Code 009:072
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2bcbb00977af1390e0fab758837ca1acba9a2cf524576172e15d178ee2390a5d
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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