Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Division of Health Interview Statistics State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), 2003 - - - - - - - - - readme_nsch03.txt ------------------ List of files and formats. TXT format. NSCH Questionnaire.pdf ------------- SLAITS National Survey of Children's Health, with skip patterns and most CATI instructions. PDF format. NSCH Methodology Report.pdf -------- Final report on the design and operation of the survey. Includes background on the survey mechanism and the sample, data collection procedures, data editing, and estimation. Also includes guidelines for use of the data set. PDF format. nschpuf3.zip ----------------------- Compressed zip file containing the NSCH public use data set. The uncompressed file is a SAS version 8 data file about 109 megabytes in size unzipped. contents.pdf ----------------------- Summary contents for the NSCH data set. Includes variable names, descriptions, and formats. PDF format. frequencies.pdf -------------------- Formatted frequencies for variables in the NSCH data set. PDF format. create_permanent_nsch_formats.sas -- SAS program that creates combined format library containing formats for the SAS data file. This program creates a permanent format library and a permanent SAS data set with the formats attached. SAS program file. assign_nsch_formats.sas ------------ SAS program that attaches formats to variables in the SAS data set. SAS program file. create_permanent_nsch_formats.sas -- Sample SAS program that uses the create_permanent_nsch_formats.sas program and the assign_nsch_formats.sas program to create and attach formats. Produces the output contained in the contents.pdf and the frequencies.pdf. SAS program file. - - - - - - - To read files written in PDF format, you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This program can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html - - - - - - -