We compiled macroinvertebrate assemblage data collected from 1995 to 2014 from the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC) of western Lake Superior. Our objective was to define depth-adjusted cutoff values for benthos condition classes (poor, fair, reference) to provide tool useful for assessing progress toward achieving removal targets for the degraded benthos beneficial use impairment in the AOC. The relationship between depth and benthos metrics was wedge-shaped. We therefore used quantile regression to model the limiting effect of depth on selected benthos metrics, including taxa richness, percent non-oligochaete individuals, combined percent Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, and Odonata individuals, and density of ephemerid mayfly nymphs (Hexagenia). We created a scaled trimetric index from the first three metrics. Metric values at or above the 90th percentile quantile regression model prediction were defined as reference condition for that depth. We set the cutoff between poor and fair condition as the 50th percentile model prediction. We examined sampler type, exposure, geographic zone of the AOC, and substrate type for confounding effects. Based on these analyses we combined data across sampler type and exposure classes and created separate models for each geographic zone. We used the resulting condition class cutoff values to assess the relative benthic condition for three habitat restoration project areas. The depth-limited pattern of ephemerid abundance we observed in the St. Louis River AOC also occurred elsewhere in the Great Lakes. We provide tabulated model predictions for application of our depth-adjusted condition class cutoff values to new sample data. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Angradi, T., W. Bartsch, A. Trebitz, V. Brady, and J. Launspach. A depth-adjusted ambient distribution approach for setting numeric removal targets for a Great Lakes Area of Concern beneficial use impairment: Degraded benthos. JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH. International Association for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 43(1): 108-120, (2017).

analyze the current population survey (cps) annual social and economic supplement (asec) with r the annual march cps-asec has been supplying the statistics for the census bureau's report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage since 1948. wow. the us census bureau and the bureau of labor statistics ( bls) tag-team on this one. until the american community survey (acs) hit the scene in the early aughts (2000s), the current population survey had the largest sample size of all the annual general demographic data sets outside of the decennial census - about two hundred thousand respondents. this provides enough sample to conduct state- and a few large metro area-level analyses. your sample size will vanish if you start investigating subgroups b y state - consider pooling multiple years. county-level is a no-no. despite the american community survey's larger size, the cps-asec contains many more variables related to employment, sources of income, and insurance - and can be trended back to harry truman's presidency. aside from questions specifically asked about an annual experience (like income), many of the questions in this march data set should be t reated as point-in-time statistics. cps-asec generalizes to the united states non-institutional, non-active duty military population. the national bureau of economic research (nber) provides sas, spss, and stata importation scripts to create a rectangular file (rectangular data means only person-level records; household- and family-level information gets attached to each person). to import these files into r, the parse.SAScii function uses nber's sas code to determine how to import the fixed-width file, then RSQLite to put everything into a schnazzy database. you can try reading through the nber march 2012 sas importation code yourself, but it's a bit of a proc freak show. this new github repository contains three scripts: 2005-2012 asec - download all microdata.R down load the fixed-width file containing household, family, and person records import by separating this file into three tables, then merge 'em together at the person-level download the fixed-width file containing the person-level replicate weights merge the rectangular person-level file with the replicate weights, then store it in a sql database create a new variable - one - in the data table 2012 asec - analysis examples.R connect to the sql database created by the 'download all microdata' progr am create the complex sample survey object, using the replicate weights perform a boatload of analysis examples replicate census estimates - 2011.R connect to the sql database created by the 'download all microdata' program create the complex sample survey object, using the replicate weights match the sas output shown in the png file below 2011 asec replicate weight sas output.png statistic and standard error generated from the replicate-weighted example sas script contained in this census-provided person replicate weights usage instructions document. click here to view these three scripts for more detail about the current population survey - annual social and economic supplement (cps-asec), visit: the census bureau's current population survey page the bureau of labor statistics' current population survey page the current population survey's wikipedia article notes: interviews are conducted in march about experiences during the previous year. the file labeled 2012 includes information (income, work experience, health insurance) pertaining to 2011. when you use the current populat ion survey to talk about america, subract a year from the data file name. as of the 2010 file (the interview focusing on america during 2009), the cps-asec contains exciting new medical out-of-pocket spending variables most useful for supplemental (medical spending-adjusted) poverty research. confidential to sas, spss, stata, sudaan users: why are you still rubbing two sticks together after we've invented the butane lighter? time to transition to r. :D

This formatted dataset (AnalysisDatabaseGBD) originates from raw data files from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD2017) affiliated with the University of Washington. We are volunteer collaborators with IHME and not employed by IHME or the University of Washington.

The population weighted GBD2017 data are on male and female cohorts ages 15-69 years including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), body mass index (BMI), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and other health outcomes and associated dietary, metabolic, and other risk factors. The purpose of creating this population-weighted, formatted database is to explore the univariate and multiple regression correlations of health outcomes with risk factors. Our research hypothesis is that we can successfully model NCDs, BMI, CVD, and other health outcomes with their attributable risks.

These Global Burden of disease data relate to the preprint: The EAT-Lancet Commission Planetary Health Diet compared with Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation Global Burden of Disease Ecological Data Analysis. The data include the following: 1. Analysis database of population weighted GBD2017 data that includes over 40 health risk factors, noncommunicable disease deaths/100k/year of male and female cohorts ages 15-69 years from 195 countries (the primary outcome variable that includes over 100 types of noncommunicable diseases) and over 20 individual noncommunicable diseases (e.g., ischemic heart disease, colon cancer, etc). 2. A text file to import the analysis database into SAS 3. The SAS code to format the analysis database to be used for analytics 4. SAS code for deriving Tables 1, 2, 3 and Supplementary Tables 5 and 6 5. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Table 4. 6. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Table 5 7. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Supplementary Table 7
8. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Supplementary Table 8 9. The Excel files that accompanied the above SAS code to produce the tables

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analyze the health and retirement study (hrs) with r the hrs is the one and only longitudinal survey of american seniors. with a panel starting its third decade, the current pool of respondents includes older folks who have been interviewed every two years as far back as 1992. unlike cross-sectional or shorter panel surveys, respondents keep responding until, well, death d o us part. paid for by the national institute on aging and administered by the university of michigan's institute for social research, if you apply for an interviewer job with them, i hope you like werther's original. figuring out how to analyze this data set might trigger your fight-or-flight synapses if you just start clicking arou nd on michigan's website. instead, read pages numbered 10-17 (pdf pages 12-19) of this introduction pdf and don't touch the data until you understand figure a-3 on that last page. if you start enjoying yourself, here's the whole book. after that, it's time to register for access to the (free) data. keep your username and password handy, you'll need it for the top of the download automation r script. next, look at this data flowchart to get an idea of why the data download page is such a righteous jungle. but wait, good news: umich recently farmed out its data management to the rand corporation, who promptly constructed a giant consolidated file with one record per respondent across the whole panel. oh so beautiful. the rand hrs files make much of the older data and syntax examples obsolete, so when you come across stuff like instructions on how to merge years, you can happily ignore them - rand has done it for you. the health and retirement study only includes noninstitutionalized adults when new respondents get added to the panel (as they were in 1992, 1993, 1998, 2004, and 2010) but once they're in, they're in - respondents have a weight of zero for interview waves when they were nursing home residents; but they're still responding and will continue to contribute to your statistics so long as you're generalizing about a population from a previous wave (for example: it's possible to compute "among all americans who were 50+ years old in 1998, x% lived in nursing homes by 2010"). my source for that 411? page 13 of the design doc. wicked. this new github repository contains five scripts: 1992 - 2010 download HRS microdata.R loop through every year and every file, download, then unzip everything in one big party impor t longitudinal RAND contributed files.R create a SQLite database (.db) on the local disk load the rand, rand-cams, and both rand-family files into the database (.db) in chunks (to prevent overloading ram) longitudinal RAND - analysis examples.R connect to the sql database created by the 'import longitudinal RAND contributed files' program create tw o database-backed complex sample survey object, using a taylor-series linearization design perform a mountain of analysis examples with wave weights from two different points in the panel import example HRS file.R load a fixed-width file using only the sas importation script directly into ram with < a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/07/importing-public-data-with-sas-instructions-into-r.html">SAScii parse through the IF block at the bottom of the sas importation script, blank out a number of variables save the file as an R data file (.rda) for fast loading later replicate 2002 regression.R connect to the sql database created by the 'import longitudinal RAND contributed files' program create a database-backed complex sample survey object, using a taylor-series linearization design exactly match the final regression shown in this document provided by analysts at RAND as an update of the regression on pdf page B76 of this document . click here to view these five scripts for more detail about the health and retirement study (hrs), visit: michigan's hrs homepage rand's hrs homepage the hrs wikipedia page a running list of publications using hrs notes: exemplary work making it this far. as a reward, here's the detailed codebook for the main rand hrs file. note that rand also creates 'flat files' for every survey wave, but really, most every analysis you c an think of is possible using just the four files imported with the rand importation script above. if you must work with the non-rand files, there's an example of how to import a single hrs (umich-created) file, but if you wish to import more than one, you'll have to write some for loops yourself. confidential to sas, spss, stata, and sudaan users: a tidal wave is coming. you can get water up your nose and be dragged out to sea, or you can grab a surf board. time to transition to r. :D

File List ACS.zip -- .zip file containing SAS macro and example code, and example Aletris bracteata data sets. acs.sas chekika_ACS_estimation.sas chekika_1.csv chekika_2.csv philippi.3.1.zip

Description "acs.sas" is a SAS macro for computing Horvitz-Thompson and Hansen-Horwitz estimates of population size for adaptive cluster sampling with random initial sampling. This version uses ugly base SAS code and does not require SQL or SAS products other than Base SAS, and should work with versions 8.2 onward (tested with versions 9.0 and 9.1). "chekika_ACS_estimation.sas" is example SAS code calling the acs macro to analyze the Chekika Aletris bracteata example data sets. "chekika_1.csv" is an example data set in ASCII comma-delimited format from adaptive cluster sampling of A. bracteata at Chekika, Everglades National Park, with 1-m2 quadrats. "chekika_2.csv" is an example data set in ASCII comma-delimited format from adaptive cluster sampling of A. bracteata at Chekika, Everglades National Park, with 4-m2 quadrats. "philippi.3.1.zip" metadata file generated by morpho, including both xml and css.

These SAS files are sample code used for the Monte Carlo studies in a manuscript on statistical properties of four effect size measures for the mediated effect.Citation:Miočević, M., O’Rourke, H. P., MacKinnon, D. P., & Brown, H. C. (2016). The bias and efficiency of five effect size measures for mediation models. Under review at Behavior Research Methods.

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students’ performance in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual information on students’ background, home characteristics and school factors which could influence performance. This publication includes detailed information on how to analyse the PISA data, enabling researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses. In addition to the inclusion of the necessary techniques, the manual also includes a detailed account of the PISA 2006 database. It also includes worked examples providing full syntax in SAS

This publication provides all the information required to understand the PISA 2003 educational performance database and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data. It enables researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses. The publication includes introductory chapters explaining the statistical theories and concepts required to analyse the PISA data, including full chapters on how to apply replicate weights and undertake analyses using plausible values; worked examples providing full syntax in SAS®; and a comprehensive description of the OECD PISA 2003 international database. The PISA 2003 database includes micro-level data on student educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and the test questions. A similar manual is available for SPSS users.

The simulated synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data presented here was generated using PoSSM [Johnson and Brown 2018]. The data is suitable for bistatic, coherent signal processing and will form acoustic seafloor imagery. Included in this data package is simulated sonar data in Generic Data Format (GDF) files, a description of the GDF file contents, example SAS imagery, and supporting information about the simulated scenes. In total, there are eleven 60 m x 90 m scenes, labeled scene00 through scene10, with scene00 provided with the scatterers in isolation, i.e. no seafloor texture. This is provided for beamformer testing purposes and should result in an image similar to the one labeled "PoSSM-scene00-scene00-starboard-0.tif" in the Related Data Sets tab. The ten other scenes have varying degrees of model variation as described in "Description_of_Simulated_SAS_Data_Package.pdf". A description of the data and the model is found in the associated document called "Description_of_Simulated_SAS_Data_Package.pdf" and a description of the format in which the raw binary data is stored is found in the related document "PSU_GDF_Format_20240612.pdf". The format description also includes MATLAB code that will effectively parse the data to aid in signal processing and image reconstruction. It is left to the researcher to develop a beamforming algorithm suitable for coherent signal and image processing. Each 60 m x 90 m scene is represented by 4 raw (not beamformed) GDF files, labeled sceneXX-STARBOARD-000000 through 000003. It is possible to beamform smaller scenes from any one of these 4 files, i.e. the four files are combined sequentially to form a 60 m x 90 m image. Also included are comma separated value spreadsheets describing the locations of scatterers and objects of interest within each scene. In addition to the binary GDF data, a beamformed GeoTIFF image and a single-look complex (SLC, science file) data of each scene is provided. The SLC data (science) is stored in the Hierarchical Data Format 5 (https://www.hdfgroup.org/), and appended with ".hdf5" to indicate the HDF5 format. The data are stored as 32-bit real and 32-bit complex values. A viewer is available that provides basic graphing, image display, and directory navigation functions (https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/). The HDF file contains all the information necessary to reconstruct a synthetic aperture sonar image. All major and contemporary programming languages have library support for encoding/decoding the HDF5 format. Supporting documentation that outlines positions of the seafloor scatterers is included in "Scatterer_Locations_Scene00.csv", while the locations of the objects of interest for scene01-scene10 are included in "Object_Locations_All_Scenes.csv". Portable Network Graphic (PNG) images that plot the location of objects of all the objects of interest in each scene in Along-Track and Cross-Track notation are provided.

File List ECO101_sample_data.xls ECO101_sample_data.txt SAS_Code.rtf

Please note that ESA cannot guarantee the availability of Excel files in perpetuity as it is proprietary software. Thus, the data file here is also supplied as a tab-delimited ASCII file, and the other Excel workbook sheets are provided below in the description section. Description -- TABLE: Please see in attached file. --

File List Text file

fullV.txt

Matlab executable files

IZ_GLSeg.m
IZ_SPACEeg.m
Space_MLfunct.m
IZ_TIMEeg.m
Time_MLfunct.m
IZ_MIXEDeg.m
IZ_MIXEDegRep.m

SAS executable files

SASMIXEDeg.sas
SASMIXEDegREG.sas

File descriptions

IZ_GLSeg.m – 
 Matlab code simulating and analyzing phylogenetic data as in example #1
fullV.txt – 
 Text file containing covariance matrix needed for IZ_GLSeg.m
IZ_SPACEeg.m – 
 Matlab code simulating and analyzing spatial data as in example #2
Space_MLfunct.m – 
 Matlab function giving the likelihood function called by IZ_SPACEeg.m
IZ_TIMEeg.m – 
 Matlab code simulating and analyzing time-series data as in example #3
Time_MLfunct.m – 
 Matlab function giving the likelihood function called by IZ_TIMEeg.m
IZ_MIXEDeg.m – 
 Matlab code simulating a single data set with spatial and temporal corelations 
 as in example #4
IZ_MIXEDegRep.m – 
 Matlab code simulating multiple data sets with spatial and temporal corelations 
 as in example #4
SASMIXEDeg.sas – 
 SAS code using REML to analyze a single data set produced by IZ_MIXEDeg.m
SASMIXEDegREG.sas – 
 SAS code using REML to analyze multiple data sets produced by IZ_MIXEDegRep.m

Description Matlab ".m" files are text files that should run under Matlab version 5.0 and 6.5 (MathWorks 1996). The two programs used for example #4, IZ_MIXEDeg.m and IZ_MIXEDegRep.m, generate text files called 'mixedeg.txt'and 'mixedegrep.txt', respecitvely. These text files are then analyzed by the two SAS programs, SASMIXEDeg.sas and SASMIXEDegREG.sas, respectively, which are written in SAS version 6.12 (SAS 1996). To run the SAS programs, the infile line will have to be changed to set the path to the files mixedeg.txt and mixedegrep.txt. The current infile line in SASMIXEDeg.sas is infile 'Macintosh HD:mixedeg.txt'; which finds the file mixedeg.txt on the hard drive 'Macintosh HD'. All files should run under Macintosh, Windows, and Unix operating systems.

The sample SAS and Stata code provided here is intended for use with certain datasets in the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA). NaNDA (https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/nanda) contains some datasets that measure neighborhood context at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) level. They are intended for use with survey or other individual-level data containing ZIP codes. Because ZIP codes do not exactly match ZIP code tabulation areas, a crosswalk is required to use ZIP-code-level geocoded datasets with ZCTA-level datasets from NaNDA. A ZIP-code-to-ZCTA crosswalk was previously available on the UDS Mapper website, which is no longer active. An archived copy of the ZIP-code-to-ZCTA crosswalk file has been included here. Sample SAS and Stata code are provided for merging the UDS mapper crosswalk with NaNDA datasets.

The Delta Neighborhood Physical Activity Study was an observational study designed to assess characteristics of neighborhood built environments associated with physical activity. It was an ancillary study to the Delta Healthy Sprouts Project and therefore included towns and neighborhoods in which Delta Healthy Sprouts participants resided. The 12 towns were located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. Data were collected via electronic surveys between August 2016 and September 2017 using the Rural Active Living Assessment (RALA) tools and the Community Park Audit Tool (CPAT). Scale scores for the RALA Programs and Policies Assessment and the Town-Wide Assessment were computed using the scoring algorithms provided for these tools via SAS software programming. The Street Segment Assessment and CPAT do not have associated scoring algorithms and therefore no scores are provided for them. Because the towns were not randomly selected and the sample size is small, the data may not be generalizable to all rural towns in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. Dataset one contains data collected with the RALA Programs and Policies Assessment (PPA) tool. Dataset two contains data collected with the RALA Town-Wide Assessment (TWA) tool. Dataset three contains data collected with the RALA Street Segment Assessment (SSA) tool. Dataset four contains data collected with the Community Park Audit Tool (CPAT). [Note : title changed 9/4/2020 to reflect study name] Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Dataset One RALA PPA Data Dictionary. File Name: RALA PPA Data Dictionary.csvResource Description: Data dictionary for dataset one collected using the RALA PPA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Two RALA TWA Data Dictionary. File Name: RALA TWA Data Dictionary.csvResource Description: Data dictionary for dataset two collected using the RALA TWA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Three RALA SSA Data Dictionary. File Name: RALA SSA Data Dictionary.csvResource Description: Data dictionary for dataset three collected using the RALA SSA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Four CPAT Data Dictionary. File Name: CPAT Data Dictionary.csvResource Description: Data dictionary for dataset four collected using the CPAT.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset One RALA PPA. File Name: RALA PPA Data.csvResource Description: Data collected using the RALA PPA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Two RALA TWA. File Name: RALA TWA Data.csvResource Description: Data collected using the RALA TWA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Three RALA SSA. File Name: RALA SSA Data.csvResource Description: Data collected using the RALA SSA tool.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Four CPAT. File Name: CPAT Data.csvResource Description: Data collected using the CPAT.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Data Dictionary. File Name: DataDictionary_RALA_PPA_SSA_TWA_CPAT.csvResource Description: This is a combined data dictionary from each of the 4 dataset files in this set.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Sas Pav

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analyze the area resource file (arf) with r the arf is fun to say out loud. it's also a single county-level data table with about 6,000 variables, produced by the united states health services and resources administration (hrsa). the file contains health information and statistics for over 3,000 us counties. like many government agencies, hrsa provides only a sas importation script and an as cii file. this new github repository contains two scripts: 2011-2012 arf - download.R download the zipped area resource file directly onto your local computer load the entire table into a temporary sql database save the condensed file as an R data file (.rda), comma-separated value file (.csv), and/or stata-readable file (.dta). 2011-2012 arf - analysis examples.R limit the arf to the variables necessary for your analysis sum up a few county-level statistics merge the arf onto other data sets, using both fips and ssa county codes create a sweet county-level map click here to view these two scripts for mo re detail about the area resource file (arf), visit: the arf home page the hrsa data warehouse notes: the arf may not be a survey data set itself, but it's particularly useful to merge onto other survey data. confidential to sas, spss, stata, and sudaan users: time to put down the abacus. time to transition to r. :D

Example of a dataset for analyzing the ADR (adr) for the concomitant use of two drugs (d1 and d2) for the listds data.

Sister Study is a prospective cohort of 50,884 U.S. women aged 35 to 74 years old conducted by the NIEHS. Eligible participants are women without a history of breast cancer but with at least one sister diagnosed with breast cancer at enrollment during 2003 - 2009. Datasets used in this research effort include health outcomes, lifestyle factors, socioeconomic factors, medication history, and built and natural environment factors. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: EPA cannot release personally identifiable information regarding living individuals, according to the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This dataset contains information about human research subjects. Because there is potential to identify individual participants and disclose personal information, either alone or in combination with other datasets, individual level data are not appropriate to post for public access. Restricted access may be granted to authorized persons by contacting the party listed. It can be accessed through the following means: Contact NIEHS Sister Study (https://sisterstudy.niehs.nih.gov/English/index1.htm) for data access. Format: Datasets are provided in SAS and/or CSV format.

analyze the survey of consumer finances (scf) with r the survey of consumer finances (scf) tracks the wealth of american families. every three years, more than five thousand households answer a battery of questions about income, net worth, credit card debt, pensions, mortgages, even the lease on their cars. plenty of surveys collect annual income, only the survey of consumer finances captures such detailed asset data. responses are at the primary economic unit-level (peu) - the economically dominant, financially interdependent family members within a sampled household. norc at the university of chicago administers the data collection, but the board of governors of the federal reserve pay the bills and therefore call the shots. if you were so brazen as to open up the microdata and run a simple weighted median, you'd get the wrong answer. the five to six thousand respondents actually gobble up twenty-five to thirty thousand records in the final pub lic use files. why oh why? well, those tables contain not one, not two, but five records for each peu. wherever missing, these data are multiply-imputed, meaning answers to the same question for the same household might vary across implicates. each analysis must account for all that, lest your confidence intervals be too tight. to calculate the correct statistics, you'll need to break the single file into five, necessarily complicating your life. this can be accomplished with the meanit sas macro buried in the 2004 scf codebook (search for meanit - you'll need the sas iml add-on). or you might blow the dust off this website referred to in the 2010 codebook as the home of an alternative multiple imputation technique, but all i found were broken links. perhaps it's time for plan c, and by c, i mean free. read the imputation section of the latest codebook (search for imputation), then give these scripts a whirl. they've got that new r smell. the lion's share of the respondents in the survey of consumer finances get drawn from a pretty standard sample of american dwellings - no nursing homes, no active-duty military. then there's this secondary sample of richer households to even out the statistical noise at the higher end of the i ncome and assets spectrum. you can read more if you like, but at the end of the day the weights just generalize to civilian, non-institutional american households. one last thing before you start your engine: read everything you always wanted to know about the scf. my favorite part of that title is the word always. this new github repository contains t hree scripts: 1989-2010 download all microdata.R initiate a function to download and import any survey of consumer finances zipped stata file (.dta) loop through each year specified by the user (starting at the 1989 re-vamp) to download the main, extract, and replicate weight files, then import each into r break the main file into five implicates (each containing one record per peu) and merge the appropriate extract data onto each implicate save the five implicates and replicate weights to an r data file (.rda) for rapid future loading 2010 analysis examples.R prepare two survey of consumer finances-flavored multiply-imputed survey analysis functions load the r data files (.rda) necessary to create a multiply-imputed, replicate-weighted survey design demonstrate how to access the properties of a multiply-imput ed survey design object cook up some descriptive statistics and export examples, calculated with scf-centric variance quirks run a quick t-test and regression, but only because you asked nicely replicate FRB SAS output.R reproduce each and every statistic pr ovided by the friendly folks at the federal reserve create a multiply-imputed, replicate-weighted survey design object re-reproduce (and yes, i said/meant what i meant/said) each of those statistics, now using the multiply-imputed survey design object to highlight the statistically-theoretically-irrelevant differences click here to view these three scripts for more detail about the survey of consumer finances (scf), visit: the federal reserve board of governors' survey of consumer finances homepage the latest scf chartbook, to browse what's possible. (spoiler alert: everything.) the survey of consumer finances wikipedia entry the official frequently asked questions notes: nationally-representative statistics on the financial health, wealth, and assets of american hous eholds might not be monopolized by the survey of consumer finances, but there isn't much competition aside from the assets topical module of the survey of income and program participation (sipp). on one hand, the scf interview questions contain more detail than sipp. on the other hand, scf's smaller sample precludes analyses of acute subpopulations. and for any three-handed martians in the audience, ther e's also a few biases between these two data sources that you ought to consider. the survey methodologists at the federal reserve take their job...

This study investigated whether the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV) capture separate Internet-related disorders, comparing CFA, Set-ESEM, and Full-ESEM models on a sample of 839 participants (59.1% females; Mage = 30.31, SD = 10.05). The ESEM solution was selected based on fit-indices [χ2 = 506.810; df = 248, p 

Background: In 1986, the Congress enacted Public Laws 99-500 and 99-591, requiring a biennial report on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). In response to these requirements, FNS developed a prototype system that allowed for the routine acquisition of information on WIC participants from WIC State Agencies. Since 1992, State Agencies have provided electronic copies of these data to FNS on a biennial basis.FNS and the National WIC Association (formerly National Association of WIC Directors) agreed on a set of data elements for the transfer of information. In addition, FNS established a minimum standard dataset for reporting participation data. For each biennial reporting cycle, each State Agency is required to submit a participant-level dataset containing standardized information on persons enrolled at local agencies for the reference month of April. The 2020 Participant and Program Characteristics (PC2020) is the 17th to be completed using the prototype PC reporting system. In April 2020, there were 89 State agencies: the 50 States, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 33 Indian Tribal Organizations (ITOs).Processing methods and equipment used: Specifications on formats (“Guidance for States Providing Participant Data”) were provided to all State agencies in January 2020. This guide specified 20 minimum dataset (MDS) elements and 11 supplemental dataset (SDS) elements to be reported on each WIC participant. Each State Agency was required to submit all 20 MDS items and any SDS items collected by the State agency. Study date(s) and duration The information for each participant was from the participants’ most current WIC certification as of April 2020.Study spatial scale (size of replicates and spatial scale of study area): In April 2020, there were 89 State agencies: the 50 States, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 33 Indian Tribal Organizations (ITOs).Level of true replication: UnknownSampling precision (within-replicate sampling or pseudoreplication):State Agency Data Submissions. PC2020 is a participant dataset consisting of 7,036,867 active records. The records, submitted to USDA by the State Agencies, comprise a census of all WIC enrollees, so there is no sampling involved in the collection of this data.PII Analytic Datasets. State agency files were combined to create a national census participant file of approximately 7 million records. The census dataset contains potentially personally identifiable information (PII) and is therefore not made available to the public.National Sample Dataset. The public use SAS analytic dataset made available to the public has been constructed from a nationally representative sample drawn from the census of WIC participants, selected by participant category. The national sample consists of 1 percent of the total number of participants, or 70,368 records. The distribution by category is 5,469 pregnant women, 6,131 breastfeeding women, 4,373 postpartum women, 16,817 infants, and 37,578 children.Level of subsampling (number and repeat or within-replicate sampling): The proportionate (or self-weighting) sample was drawn by WIC participant category: pregnant women, breastfeeding women, postpartum women, infants, and children. In this type of sample design, each WIC participant has the same probability of selection across all strata. Sampling weights are not needed when the data are analyzed. In a proportionate stratified sample, the largest stratum accounts for the highest percentage of the analytic sample.Study design (before–after, control–impacts, time series, before–after-control–impacts): None – Non-experimentalDescription of any data manipulation, modeling, or statistical analysis undertaken: Each entry in the dataset contains all MDS and SDS information submitted by the State agency on the sampled WIC participant. In addition, the file contains constructed variables used for analytic purposes. To protect individual privacy, the public use file does not include State agency, local agency, or case identification numbers.Description of any gaps in the data or other limiting factors: All State agencies provided data on a census of their WIC participants.Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: WIC PC 2020 National Sample File Public Use Codebook.; File Name: PC2020 National Sample File Public Use Codebook.docx; Resource Description: WIC PC 2020 National Sample File Public Use CodebookResource Title: WIC PC 2020 Public Use CSV Data.; File Name: wicpc2020_public_use.csv; Resource Description: WIC PC 2020 Public Use CSV DataResource Title: WIC PC 2020 Data Set SAS, R, SPSS, Stata.; File Name: PC2020 Ag Data Commons.zipResource; Description: WIC PC 2020 Data Set SAS, R, SPSS, Stata One dataset in multiple formats