Wow - thanks!
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/ahcd_questionnaires.htm
Scroll down to Public-use Data Files / Downloadable Data Files.
Click the link for NAMCS, 1993-2008.
Choose NAMCS08.exe.
This downloads a 2.2MB zip file to your drive, which extracts to a 27MB data
file. That's the file I'm working with.
FYI, FWIW, etc: If you surf the links for related documentation, you'll see
that gov actually provided an SPSS script for file import for a few data-sets
from 2006 and earlier. That was actually my personal discovery point for PSPP,
leading to my attempt to create a simple script for the 2008 data file, and to
this email. My goal is much simpler than the "segregate and label" functions
provided by the huge gov script. I only need to import the data into a usable
PSPP "spreadsheet" to sort & determine the number of 382.x diagnoses, and then
what proportion of those were accompanied by a certain prescription drug code.
I'll then adapt & apply the same script to multiple prior years and to evaluate
trends in antibiotic drug consumption for that diagnosis.
Anyway - thanks very much. The PSPP app & community is impressive even to an
amateur such as myself.
DS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]>
To: "David Spaugh" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Noob needs help with simple script
> Hi David.
>
> PSPP should be able to read the file that you described. I guess
> that this is a publicly available data set, since it is US
> government data. If so, can you pass along a pointer to it?
> I'll run the syntax that you provided on it here and, if I see
> the same problem, then I'll do my best to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
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