Person Disposition Status. The variable PSTAT13 indicates a person’s response and eligibility status. The PSTAT13 variable indicates the reasons for either continuing data collection for a person or terminating data collection for each person in the MEPS. Using this variable, one could identify persons who moved during the reference period, died, were born, were institutionalized or were in the military. Note that some categories may be collapsed for confidentiality purposes. The following codes specify the value labels for the PSTAT13 variable. Note that some values for PSTAT13 are round-specific, as indicated in the labels.
Person Disposition Status. The variable PSTAT13 indicates a person’s response and eligibility status. The PSTAT13 variable indicates the reasons for either continuing data collection for a person or terminating data collection for each person in the MEPS. Using this variable, one could identify persons who moved during the reference period, died, were born, were institutionalized or were in the military. The following codes specify the value labels for the PSTAT13 variables. Note that some values for PSTAT13 are round-specific, as indicated in the labels. 11 Person in original RU, not full-time active military duty 12 Person in original RU, full-time active military duty, out-of-scope for whole reference period 13 Person is a full-time student living away from home, but associated with sampled RU 14 Person is full-time active military duty during round and is in-scope for part of the reference period and is in the RU at the end of the reference period 22 Person leaves a health care institution and rejoins the community - round 3 only 23 Person leaves a health care institution, goes into community and then dies - round 3 only 31 Person from original RU, dies during reference period 32 Person entered health care institution during reference period
