Description

For all persons, RELYR indicates whether they are in their first or second year of participation in the MEPS household component panel. The MEPS panel involves five rounds of interviews over a period of about two years. For more information on the relationship between relative year, calendar year, panel, and round data, please see the IPUMS MEPS Panel Design Documentation.

NOTE: AHRQ's COVID-related introduction of additional interviews for households in Panels 23 and 24 necessitated adjustments to fit the expanded panel data into the traditional three-round-per-calendar-year MEPS data structure. This resulted in RELYR being expanded to 3 and/or 4 years in 2020 and 2021. For more information, please see the user note on MEPS 2020 changes.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• 1996-2022

Weights

• No weights are available for this variable. Please refer to RELYR for more information.

Flags