NCHS Data Release

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NCHS Data Release

• Jennifer Madans, Ph.D.
• Associate Director for Science
• NCHS

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Currently available software (On-site)

• SAS (Version 9.1)
• Stata (v.9)
• HLM (v.5)
• SPSS (v.12)

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Currently available software Cont.

• R (v.2.2.0)
• Sudaan SAS Callable, including Crosstab
  Descript Ratio Records Regression procedure
  Regress Logistic Survival Multilog
• Also recently added are Kapmeier, a survival
  procedure, and Loglink, a regression procedure

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RDC Cost Structure

• File setup 500 (one-time)
• On Site 200/day minimum of 2 consecutive days
  and maximum of 10 consecutive days (additional
  scheduling available)
• Remote 500/month for files lt130,000 records
• Remote 1,000/month for files 130,000 records

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RDC Cost Structure, cont.

• Remote 1,000/year for NSFG files
• Remote 250/month for NHANES or NHIS public use
  data and linked mortality files
• Staff Programming 500/day