National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Supplement on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services for Office-based Physicians (National CLAS Physician Survey) Public Use File and Documentation WARNING - DATA USE RESTRICTIONS! Read Carefully before Using The Public Health Service Act (Section 308 (d)) provides that the data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), may be used only for the purpose of health statistical reporting and analysis. Any effort to determine the identity of any reported case is prohibited by this law. NCHS does all it can to assure that the identity of data subjects cannot be disclosed. All direct identifiers, as well as any characteristics that might lead to identification, are omitted from the dataset. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Therefore, users will: 1. Use the data in this dataset for statistical reporting and analysis only. 2. Make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently and advise the Director, NCHS, of any such discovery. 3. Not link this dataset with individually identifiable data from other NCHS or non-NCHS datasets. By using these data, you signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated statutorily based requirements. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The files listed below comprise the public use data file and complete file documentation for the 2016 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Supplement on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services for Office-based Physicians (National CLAS Physician Survey). File Name File Description Size (bytes) namcs_clas2016 NAMCS CLAS dataset 94 KB doc2016_clas.pdf NAMCS CLAS documentation file 354 KB The data file is in ASCII format and has not been compressed. *************************************************************************************************** Instructions for using this file with SAS, Stata, and SPSS software can be found here: For SAS users: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/sas/ For Stata users: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/stata/ For SPSS users: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/spss/ Note that we are providing SAS, Stata, and SPSS code to create your own files, as well as providing complete pre-made SPSS, Stata, and SAS data sets. **************************************************************************************************** CAUTION - Because the NAMCS CLAS is a sample survey, the application of weights to the sample data is REQUIRED to produce national estimates of physicians, as well as to accurately assess the sampling error of statistics based on the survey data. Please refer to the appropriate sections of the documentation file for information on how to apply the weights and to obtain relative standard errors of national estimates. For questions, suggestions, or comments concerning NAMCS CLAS data, please contact the Ambulatory and Hospital Care Statistics Branch at (301) 458-4600 or by email at ambcare@cdc.gov. For additional information on NCHS data products, please call CDC-INFO at 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636), TTY (888-232-6348), Monday-Friday 8am-8pm EST, or use the CDC-INFO online request form at https://www.cdc.gov/info.