meps_extract_stata

Extract Medical Expenditure Panel Survey's Household Consolidated Data Files using Stata

• This code downloads the datasets between the years 1996 and 2019 to the "C:\MEPS\DATA" directory by remotely running the Stata scripts that are published in the MEPS website.

• There is no need to manually download Stata codes for each year and execute locally.

• Data for the years 1996 to 2019 is extracted in ASCII format (.dat), and data for the year 2019 and onwards is directly extrcated as STATA dataset format (.dta).

• Should you require codes for individual years, they are available at the following link: https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_stats/download_data/pufs/XYZ/XYZstu.txt, where XYZ are yearly dataset names. For example, for 2012, it is h155

• Log files are produced for each year of data extraction in the same destination directory - "C:\MEPS\DATA".

• For more details, see https://github.com/HHS-AHRQ/MEPS

Suggestions or corrections, let me know at [email protected].