IPUMS MEPS Terms of Use
When registering to use IPUMS MEPS, users agreed to the terms below. To check your account status or register to use IPUMS MEPS, see account options.
Redistribution: You will not redistribute the data without permission
You may publish a subset of the data to meet journal requirements for accessing data related to a particular publication. Contact us for permission for any other redistribution; we will consider requests for free and commercial redistribution.
Usage: You will use the data in these data files for statistical reporting and analysis only
The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m and 42 U.S.C. 299 a-1, Sections 308 (d) and 903 (c)) provides that the data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) may be used only for the purposes of health statistical reporting and analysis.
Confidentiality: You will not use the data to identify individuals
Any effort to determine the identity of any reported case is prohibited by this law. AHRQ do all they can to assure that the identity of data subjects cannot be disclosed. All direct identifiers, as well as any characteristics that might lead to identification, are omitted from the data files. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently and advise the Director Office of Management of AHRQ of any such discovery in the MEPS data. Do not link these data with individually-identifiable data from any other datasets, other than the MEPS or NHIS. Linkage of individual records from the MEPS and NHIS may only occur inside the AHRQ Data Center, NCHS Research Data Center, or the U.S. Census RDC network.
Cite IPUMS MEPS data appropriately
For information on proper citation refer to citation and use. Publications and research reports making use of IPUMS MEPS should be added to our Bibliography.
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