Archive for the ‘Birth’ Category

Health-related SAS programs

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

You can find many interesting SAS programs from the University of Manitoba Centre for Health Policy here.

National birth data files and programs

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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.

NCHS Birth Data Programs

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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)

Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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.