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2012 SMART: BRFSS City and County Data and Documentation
2012 SMART BRFSS MMSA Weighting Methodology [PDF – 65 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.
2012 SMART BRFSS County Weighting Methodology [PDF – 79 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.
Calculated Variables in Data Files [PDF – 43 KB]
Description of risk factors by data variable name.
Comparability of Data [PDF – 62 KB]
Comparability of data across reporting areas.
Summary Matrix of Calculated Variables (CV) in the 2012 Data File
The data files are provided in both ASCII and SAS Transport formats. There are 223,988 records in the county data set and 297,202 records in the MMSA data set. BRFSS and BRFSS GIS Maps data and documentation are also available for this data year.
2012 SMART BRFSS County Data (ASCII) [ZIP – 13 MB]
Data released August, 2013
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 285 positions.
2012 SMART BRFSS County Data (SAS Transport Format) [ZIP – 26 MB]
Data updated August, 2013
This file was exported from SAS V9.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 140 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels become truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the CNTY12_SASOUT.SAS program.
County Variable Layout [PDF – 43 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.
2012 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (ASCII) [ZIP – 17 MB]
Data released August, 2013
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 328 positions.
2012 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (SAS Transport Format) [ZIP – 35 MB]
Data released August, 2013
This file was exported from SAS V9.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 139 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels become truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the MMSA12_SASOUT.SAS program.
MMSA Variable Layout [PDF – 48 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.
The following files are included for use with SAS software developed by SAS Institute, Inc. The SAS files are programs that can be read using any text editor. Save SAS files as plain text files.
Format12.sas [SAS – 149 KB]
SAS for Windows program used to generate the 2012 format library.
formats12.sas7bcat [SAS7BCAT – 435 KB]
Format library used with the 2012 BRFSS SAS Data File.
MMSA12_SASOUT [SAS – 17 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the MMSA ASCII file into a SAS dataset.
CNTY12_SASOUT [SAS – 10 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the County ASCII file into a SAS dataset.
TRANSPRT.SAS [SAS – 3 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the XPT (SAS Transport) file into a SAS dataset.
Formas12.sas [SAS – 11 KB]
SAS for Windows format assignment statements.
