Archive for the ‘National Survey of Children w Special Health Care Needs’ Category

Using multiple imputation in SPSS

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

There are some guides and syntax for using multiple imputation in SPSS that can be found here.  You can find some information on the SPSS Developer site too.

Update: My take on using multiply imputed values in SPSS:  It is way too much of a hassle compared to other programs (e.g. Stata).  I spent hours tailoring one of the programs linked above, then was able to have it done in Stata in minutes.  The output was more understandable and included more useful information.  While people who are very good SPSS programmers might be able to do it reasonably quickly, this was not at all my experience.  Bottom line: I have not found an easy way to use multiply imputed values within a complex sample survey in SPSS (my work was with the NS-CSHCN).  Please let me know if you find otherwise!

Sampling plan files for NS-CSHCN

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Attached are sampling plan files that can be used with the SPSS Complex Samples module when working with the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.  I developed files on my own, but then contacted NCHS just to be sure I did it correctly (I did).  These are the files they sent me.

Interview file

Screener file

Household file

NS-CH and NS-CSHCN SAS/SPSS codebooks

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

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).