# MedPAC Data Book numeric metric observations

`medicare_silver.medpac_databook_metric_observation` · Medicare Advantage, Part D, Medicaid · status live · 5,567 rows

Source-faithful numeric observations from every accepted MedPAC supporting workbook, with metric header path, measurement period and year, quarter, unit, category, projection status, exact value/header/dimension cell coordinates, formula, number format, document hash, and content-addressed Bronze lineage.

**Grain.** One exact publisher numeric value cell per accepted workbook exhibit, excluding detected period and dimension cells.

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| corpus_snapshot_date | date |  |
| observation_id | string |  |
| asset_id | string |  |
| edition_year | int |  |
| section_number | int |  |
| sheet_name | string |  |
| sheet_index | int |  |
| exhibit_type | string |  |
| exhibit_number | string |  |
| exhibit_title | string |  |
| measure_name | string |  |
| unit_label | string |  |
| unit_code | string |  |
| value_numeric | double |  |
| value_text | string |  |
| value_status | string |  |
| measurement_period | string |  |
| measurement_year | int |  |
| measurement_quarter | int |  |
| period_type | string |  |
| category_label | string |  |
| population_label | string |  |
| geography_label | string |  |
| dimension_json | string |  |
| value_cell_coordinate | string |  |
| period_cell_coordinate | string |  |
| measure_header_cells_json | string |  |
| dimension_cells_json | string |  |
| formula | string |  |
| number_format | string |  |
| raw_value_json | string |  |
| displayed_value_json | string |  |
| publisher_source_url | string |  |
| document_sha256 | string |  |
| semantic_row_sha256 | string |  |
| is_current_edition | boolean |  |
| quality_flags | string |  |
| is_analytics_eligible | boolean |  |
| observed_period | date |  |
| asserted_at | date |  |
| effective_period_start | date |  |
| effective_period_end | date |  |
| cms_vintage_sequence | int |  |
| parse_revision | int |  |
| parser_artifact_hash | string |  |
| source_url | string |  |
| sha256_content_hash | string |  |
| source_id | string |  |
| is_current | boolean |  |
| bronze_object_key | string |  |
| s3_version_id | string |  |
| vintage_tag | string |  |
| drug_source_version_id | string |  |

Query it: `query_substrate` with `SELECT ... FROM medicare_silver.medpac_databook_metric_observation WHERE ... LIMIT 100`; read `describe_data_source("medicare_silver.medpac_databook_metric_observation")` first.