Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) Overview and SetX Debut Ann Aikin and Bob Sloss 2004 Data Users Conference Session #16 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics

Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS), One Solution  Public Health Service Act requires that: DHHS “publish, make available and disseminate such statistics on as wide a basis as is practicable.” [Section 308 (242m) (c) ]  Users also report wanting greater access to data and documentation.  They want it to be low cost and easy to use.  Public Use Data released in SETS format retains its original structure, codes, weights, values, field names, and documentation.  Developed, owned, and maintained by NCHS – no cost/license fees to NCHS or users.

Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) History  SETS developed  Federal Leadership Award for “outstanding achievement in information systems”  WINDOWS version of SETS  Revision 805 released  SetX released for beta testing  Currently users can obtain more than 70 SETS CD-ROMS featuring NCHS data and documentation.  In the next six months, NCHS will release 4-8 new data sets in the SETS version.

SETS User Affiliation *Other includes Congressional staff, policymakers, philanthropists, non-profits, contractors and consultants

SETS Features: An Overview  SETS Designer Kit  SETS ASCII Editor  SETS Interface  Searching SETS  Documentation files  field labels  code labels  Browsing Data File  Selecting Records  Recoding  Tabulating  Frequencies  Percents  Weights  Charting  Exporting/Extracting  SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more…  SETS QuickTab Generator Allows for speedier tabulations, without documentation files.

SETS Features: Designer Kit and Editor SETS Designer Kit  Build child sets  Or design your own! SETS Editor Powerful ASCII Editor—for editing large, complex data sets.

SETS Features: The SETS Interface  The SETS Interface—Data and documentation available together!  The interface is available on every SETS CD, on the NCHS Internet site (download), and on the SETS software CD.  Revision 805 is the most current version.

SETS Features: The SETS Interface Searching in SETS: Documents, fields and codes

SETS Features: The SETS Interface Browsing in SETS

SETS Features: The SETS Interface Selecting Records and Recoding Fields

SETS Features: The SETS Interface Tabulating: Frequencies, Percents, Rates and Weights

SETS Features: The SETS Interface Exporting and Extracting Data (SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more…)

SetX: Meeting User Needs  Emerging need for more analytic tools in SETS  Need to add Internet components  Pressure to make table generation more user friendly  Other enhancements

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Ann Aikin  (301)  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2004 Data Users Conference Session #16 Bob Sloss  (301) 