*This program reads the 1998 National Health Interview Survey 1998 househld Data File *Note: This program is distributed under the GNU GPL. See end of *this file and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for details. *by Jean Roth Mon Jul 2 15:42:31 EDT 2007 *Please report errors to jroth@nber.org *Change output file name/location as desired. *Change the input file location as needed. *If you have trouble running this program, *then try opening a new syntax file & type this command: *INCLUDE "c:\nhis1998_househld.sps". *and choose to RUN ALL file handle nhis1998_househld /name="c:\homes\data\nhis\ftp.cdc.gov\pub\Health_Statistics\NCHS\Datasets\NHIS\1998\househld.dat" . data list file=nhis1998_househld / rectype 1-2 srvy_yr 3-6 hhx 7-12 (a) intv_qrt 13 assignwk 14-15 int_m_p 16-17 (a) int_y_p 18-21 (a) livqrt 22-23 non_intv 24 telenum 25 inside 26 noserv 27 howlngwk 28-29 nowaf_hh 30 acpt_fam 31-32 rej_fam 33-34 acpt_per 35-36 rej_per 37-38 acptchld 39-40 lng_intv 41 region 42 msasizep 43 wtia_hh 44-49 wtfa_hh 50-55 stratum 56-58 psu 59 . * See the codebook for more detailed variable descriptions. variable labels rectype "Record Type" srvy_yr "Processing Year" hhx "Household Serial Number" intv_qrt "Interviewing Quarter" assignwk "Assignment Week" int_m_p "Date of Interview - Month" int_y_p "Date of Interview - Year" livqrt "Type of Living Quarters" non_intv "Category of type A non-response" telenum "Telephone number" inside "Working phone inside home" noserv "Without telephone service past 12 mont" howlngwk "Number of weeks w/o telephone service" nowaf_hh "Armed Forces member in HH" acpt_fam "Number of families responding in HH" rej_fam "Number of families not responding in H" acpt_per "Number of persons responding in HH" rej_per "Number of persons not responding in HH" acptchld "Number of children that responded in H" lng_intv "Language of interview" region "Region" msasizep "Geographic Distribution - MSA size" wtia_hh "Weight - Interim Annual" wtfa_hh "Weight - Final Annual" stratum "Stratum for variance estimation" psu "PSU for variance estimation" . value labels rectype 10 "Household" /srvy_yr 1998 "1998" /intv_qrt 1 "Quarter 1" 2 "Quarter 2" 3 "Quarter 3" 4 "Quarter 4" /assignwk 01 "Week 1" 02 "Week 2" 03 "Week 3" 04 "Week 4" 05 "Week 5" 06 "Week 6" 07 "Week 7" 08 "Week 8" 09 "Week 9" 10 "Week 10" 11 "Week 11" 12 "Week 12" 13 "Week 13" /int_m_p "01" "January" "02" "February" "03" "March" "04" "April" "05" "May" "06" "June" "07" "July" "08" "August" "09" "September" "10" "October" "11" "November" "12" "December" "98" "Not ascertained" /livqrt 01 "House; apartment; flat; condo" 02 "HU in nontransient hotel; motel" 03 "HU-permanent in transient hotel; motel" 04 "HU in rooming house" 05 "Mobile home/trailer w/no permanent rooms added" 06 "Mobile home/trailer w/1+ permanent rooms added" 07 "HU not specified above" 08 "Quarters not HU in room or board house" 09 "Unit not permanent-transient hotel; motel" 10 "Unoccupied site for mobile home/trailer/tent" 11 "Student quarters in college dormitory" 12 "Group quarter unit not specified above" 98 "Not ascertained" /non_intv 1 "Refused" 2 "No one home - repeated calls" 3 "Temporarily absent" 4 "Language problem" 5 "Other" /telenum 1 "Gave a telephone number" 2 "No telephone service" 7 "Refused" 8 "Not ascertained" 9 "Don't know" /inside 1 "Yes" 2 "No" 7 "Refused" 8 "Not ascertained" 9 "Don't know" /noserv 1 "Yes" 2 "No" 7 "Refused" 8 "Not ascertained" 9 "Don't know" /howlngwk 00 "One week or less" 01 "More than one week; up to two weeks" 02 "More than two weeks; up to three weeks" 97 "Refused" 98 "Not ascertained" 99 "Don't know" /nowaf_hh 1 "Armed Forces member in HH" 2 "No Armed Forces member in HH*" /lng_intv 1 "English" 2 "Spanish" 3 "English and Spanish" 4 "Other" 8 "Not ascertained" /region 1 "Northeast" 2 "Midwest" 3 "South" 4 "West" /msasizep 1 "5;000;000 or more" 2 "2;500;000 - 4;999;999" 3 "1;000;000 - 2;499;999" 4 "500;000 - 999;999" 5 "250;000 - 499;999" 6 "Under 250;000" 7 "Non-MSA" . list. execute. save outfile = 'c:\nhis1998_househld.sav'. *Copyright 2007 shared by the National Bureau of Economic Research and Jean Roth * *National Bureau of Economic Research. *1050 Massachusetts Avenue *Cambridge, MA 02138 *jroth@nber.org * *This program and all programs referenced in it are free software. You *can redistribute the program or modify it under the terms of the GNU *General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; *either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * *This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the *GNU General Public License for more details. * *You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License *along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software *Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 *USA.