Message-ID: <loom.20050914T092206-981@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2005-09-14T07:23:24Z
From: Dieter Menne
Subject: Anyone have any code for importing data from NAMCS?
David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D. <dlvanbrunt <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> The National Ambulatory and Medical Care Survey is a free data set from the
> CDC that I'd like to analyze using the "Survey" package in R. Before I dive
> in, though, it occurred to me that someone may already have gone to the
> trouble of writing code that will bring in the data and assign the variable
> names and value labels.
At least the 2002 and 2003 files are available as SPSS macros (not as SPSS
file, as far I know). So if you know someone with SPSS, ask her to run the
macros, and read in the data with R and package foreign.
Dieter Menne