Accessing and Using NCHS Data: An Overview of Microdata Access Tools with SETS Demonstration

Ann Aikin, Avay Dolberry, and Brady Hamilton

2004 Data Users Conference Hands-On Session #34

U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesCenters for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health Statistics

Microdata Access Tools

Selected NCHS setsSETS

Selected NCHS setsDataFerrett

Injuries WISCARS

Healthy People ObjectivesDATA2010

Mortality, NatalityCDC Wonder

Healthy Women and AgingBeyond 20/20

NCHS Data AvailableKinds

of DataLevel

Ease of UseForma

tTool

Accessing NCHS Data:Using Beyond 20/20 Software to Access Healthy Women, Trends in Health and

Aging, and the Asthma Data Page Tables

Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality State level data for

sex, age, race/ethnicity, and year

5 Mortality Tables (42 Causes, All Causes, Asthma, Child and Adolescence, and CPOD)

5 Natality Tables 18 Health Behavior

and Risk Factor Tables (BRFSS)

Trends in Health and Aging Mortality and Life Expectancy Functional Status and Disability Risk Factors Injuries Health Care Utilization Population Living Arrangements Health Care Expenditures

Asthma Data Page– Coming Soon! 3 tables—Prevalence, Hospitalizations,

and Mortality

Accessing NCHS Data:Using the Beyond 20/20 Online and Browser Tables

Accessing NCHS Data:Using Beyond 20/20 Browser Online

Nesting Tables

Accessing NCHS Data:Using Beyond 20/20 Online

Tables, Charts and Maps

Accessing NCHS Data Sets: Using CDC WONDER and DATA2010

CDC WONDER provides access to NCHS Mortality (1999, 1979-98), Natality (1995-98), and Linked Birth/Infant Death (1995-98)

DATA2010 provides the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010 (national and some state data, operational

definitions, and other measurement information.)

Accessing NCHS Data Sets: Using CDC WONDER and DATA2010

Accessing NCHS Data:Using WISQARS to Access Injury-Related

NCHS DataNon-fatal Injuries, Mortality-

related Injuries, and other Injury Data

Accessing NCHS Data:Using WISQARS to Access Injury-Related NCHS Data

Accessing NCHS Data:Data Ferret and Data Web

Application runs on the desktop, with Internet access to installation and data. Users can create crosstabs, frequencies, maps, and exports. Merge data sets with comparable fields.

Accessing NCHS Data:Data Ferret and Data Web

Accessing NCHS Data:Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS)

Over 70 SETS CDs of NCHS

Data!

SETS Features: An Overview SETS Designer Kit SETS ASCII Editor SETS Interface

Searching SETS Documentation files field labels code labels

Browsing Data File Selecting Records Recoding

Tabulating Frequencies Percents Weights

Charting Exporting/Extracting

SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more…

SETS QuickTab GeneratorAllows for speedier tabulations, without documentation files.

SETS Features: Designer Kit and Editor SETS Designer Kit

Build child sets Or design your own data sets!

SETS Editor Powerful

ASCII Editor—for editing large, complex data sets.

SETS Features: The SETS Interface

The SETS Interface—Data and documentation available together!

The interface is available on every SETS CD, on the NCHS Internet site (download), and on the SETS software CD.

Revision 805 is the most current version.

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceSearching in SETS: Documents, fields

and codes

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceBrowsing in SETS

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceSelecting Records and Recoding Fields

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceTabulating: Frequencies,

Percents, Rates and Weights

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceExporting and Extracting Data(SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more…)

SETS FeaturesBrowsing

Data for 2002 reveal that the

rate of cesarean delivery rose to the highest level ever reported in the U.S. Find the

method of delivery fields by

browsing the SETS 2002

Natality data file.

SETS FeaturesSearching

SETS FeaturesSelecting RecordsIn working with

NCHS data, careful attention should be paid

to the documentation. For example, to match estimates

reported by NCHS in SETS,

one must exclude foreign born residents

before tabulating natality data.

Exclude foreign born residents, by choosing Records and Select from the menu. Per documentation, use the field STRESFIP, the operator != (not equal) and the code 00 (foreign born residents).

SETS FeaturesRecoding Fields

Let’s create a recode for cesarean

deliveries, based on the DELMETH5 field. To match

figures published in the Final

Report, we need to combine the

primary and repeat cesarean deliveries for a

total.

SETS FeaturesTabulating

SETS FeaturesExporting Data (SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more…)

Practice exporting the 2002 Natality data to the format of

your choice.

Accessing and Using NCHS Data: An Overview

of Microdata Access Tools with SETS Demonstration

2004 Data Users Conference Hands-On Session #34

U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesCenters for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health Statistics

Ann Aikin (301) 458-4069

aia3@cdc.gov

Avay Dolberry (919) 541-2700

aym6@cdc.gov

Brady Hamilton (301) 458-4653

boh5@cdc.gov