The MEPS Household Component fields questionnaires to individual household members and their medical providers to collect nationally representative data on demographic characteristics, health conditions, health status, use of medical care services, charges and payments, access to care, satisfaction with care, health insurance coverage, income, and employment.
Survey basics: Select from the following
for detailed information on the objectives, instruments, and procedures
for data collection in the Household Component:
MEPS topics: Resources on this site for particular topics of interest.
Publications: Analyses of MEPS data ranging from brief to extensive reports, chartbooks consisting mainly of graphs, and descriptions of MEPS sample designs and survey methods.
Summary data
tables: Tables with frequently used summary data on
household medical utilization and expenditures.
MEPSnet
query tools: Interactive query tools that generate
statistics using Household Component public use data
files.
Downloadable
data files (person, job, event, or condition level): Public
use data files, documentation, and codebooks.
Projected
expenditures: Projected
health care expenditures through the year 2016 are not yet available. They will be posted at this Web location sometime during 2008.
CD-ROM: Order
public use data and documentation files on CD-ROM from AHRQ.
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850