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Data Ferrett The Most Efficient (and cutest)
Data Source on the WWW - and it's Free!
Prepared for NHVTSUG Louise Hadden Abt
Associates Inc. January 2006
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• Got Secondary or Primary Data Needs?
• Can't Afford to Pay for It?
• Can't Wait for It?
• Data Ferrett May Be the Solution!
• http//dataferrett.census.gov/

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What is Data Ferrett? DataFerrett Federal
Electronic Research, Review, Extract and
Tabulation Tool is a free internet-based tool
that allows you to explore data, save customized
data extracts, create spreadsheet tables, graph
and extract from datasets world wide that are
published to the Data Web.
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What is Data Ferrett?
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What are some of Data Ferretts Data Sets?
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• What Data is Available through Data Ferrett?
• American Community Survey
• American Housing Survey
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Current Population Survey (continued)

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• What Data is Available through Data Ferrett?
• Decennial Census of Population and Housing
  (including at the zip code level)
• Decennial Public Use Microdata Samples
• Mortality
• National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
• National Health and Nutrition Examination
  Survey (continued)

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• What Data is Available through Data Ferrett?
• National Health Interview Survey
• National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care
  Survey
• National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and
  Wildlife Associated Recreation
• Survey of Income and Program Participation
• Survey of Program Dynamics
• And more!

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American Community Survey
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American Housing Survey
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
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Consumer Expenditure Survey
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Current Population Survey
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Current Population Survey (continued)
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Current Population Survey (continued)
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Decennial Census of Population and Housing
(including at the zip code level)
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Decennial Census of Population and Housing
(continued)
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Decennial Public Use Microdata Samples
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Mortality
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National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
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National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
(NHANES)
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National Health Interview Survey
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National Health Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
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National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife
Associated Recreation
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Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Survey of Program Dynamics
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Okay, Im sold. How do I get data? First, you
must download and install the Data Ferrett
software from the Bureau of the Census website.
If you are not able to write to your hard drive,
you may need the assistance of the helpdesk. The
software is free for the price of your email
address, which is only used to send you links to
your data requests. Once Data Ferrett is
installed
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Search Datasets by Topics and Themes
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Choose your data source!
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I chose the American Housing Survey
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Choose your variables
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Choose your variables
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In the data shopping basket
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Choose download or make a table
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Make a table (VERY cool they deal with weights,
you can make graphs, etc.)
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A Little on Census Geography
Census data was used in the first presentation .
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Census Geography
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Census Geography
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Census Geography
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Census Geography
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Census Geography
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Census Geography
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Choose to download your data
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Choose to download your data
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More on the download method
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More on the download method
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More on the download method
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Results of Census Download
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Results of Census Download
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Results of Census Download
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Thanks for coming!