Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) Overview

and SetX Debut

Ann Aikin and Bob Sloss2004 Data Users Conference Session #16

U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesCenters for Disease Control and PreventionNational 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 1991 - SETS developed

1993 - Federal Leadership Award for “outstanding achievement in information systems”

1996 - WINDOWS version of SETS

2000- Revision 805 released

2004 - 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

Commerical

Academic

Media

Library

Other*

Health Provider

State and Local Government

Federal Government

*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 GeneratorAllows for speedier tabulations, without documentation files.

SETS Features: Designer Kit and EditorSETS Designer Kit

Build child sets

Or design your own!

SETS EditorPowerful 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 InterfaceSearching in SETS: Documents, fields

and codes

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceBrowsing in SETS

SETS Features: The SETS Interface

Selecting Records and Recoding

Fields

SETS Features: The SETS InterfaceTabulating: 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

Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS)

ContactsSETS@cdc.gov

SetX@cdc.gov

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/sets.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/sets/listservsets.htm

(919) 541-4238

Ann Aikin (301) 458-4069 AAikin@cdc.gov

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health StatisticsU.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2004 Data Users Conference Session #16

Bob Sloss (301) 458-4508 RSloss@cdc.gov