Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for Dementia Researchers, 2015-2019

This series of code and corresponding data files are intended for use in cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) research. The files include five datasets derived from the 2015-2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). MEPS provides users with detailed information on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage in the U.S., surveying families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers. <br><br>The provided datasets include sociodemographic information on respondents’ census region, age, sex, marital status, race, and education level, cognition questions, and health care expenditures and use from the Household Component Full-Year Consolidated Data File. These data were merged onto the Medical Components File identifying respondents with ADRD or other cognitive impairments using truncated ICD-9/ICD-10 codes. Brief and detailed summaries of the variables available in these datasets along with more detailed descriptions of performed calculations can be found in the provided data dictionaries. SAS, Stata, and CSV file formats are provided as are the full coding scripts used in both SAS and Stata.