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Here is a link to a page with SPSS and SAS codebooks for the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (click).

And here is a link to a page with a SAS codebook for the National Survey of Children’s Health (click).

Although there are several good online query systems (e.g. NCHS and MOD), here is one site I’ve found useful for downloading programs related to formatting the NCHS birth data files.

National Bureau of Economic Research
1968-2005 U.S. birth data files from NCHS, but with some formatting done and input programs available. Many other related documents available on this page. A shorter range of years of data files are available for the territories.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data.  SAS and Windows programs are available on the AHRQ QI website (click).

Here are some useful SAS programs I received today from Joyce Martin at the National Center for Health Statistics. Please contact her with any questions at 301-458-4362 or jcm9@cdc.gov.

New Format Gestational Age

Old Format Gestational Age

Month Prenatal Care Began (2003 revised certificate only)

Here is an SPSS version of the APNCU (Kotelchuck) Index program.

APNCU_SPSS

You can find the SAS program in the online MCH Library here.

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-David Laflamme

Here is an example of what you can do. Attached is an SPSS syntax file — this one actually doesn’t do much other than extract the year from a date. You would describe what the syntax does here, and then upload the file and link it within this post. Here is the file: Test SPSS syntax (SPS) format.

Hint: After uploading the file, click Send to Editor to insert the link in your post.