*New* Health Data Releases from IPUMS
Posted: 8/17/2023 ()
The University of Minnesota’s IPUMS team has newly-released health data from two sources. The IPUMS MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research) now includes over 70 new variables from the Prescribed Medicines file from 1996 to the present. These variables include information on medication type, drug name, amounts paid per medication fill, and more. They have also released new variables from IPUMS NHIS, which now includes over 600 variables from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey.