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2021 SMART: BRFSS City and County Data and Documentation
2021 SMART BRFSS MMSA Weighting Methodology [PDF – 234 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.
Calculated Variables in Data Files [PDF – 1.91 MB]
Description of risk factors by data variable name.
Comparability of Data [PDF – 178 KB]
Comparability of data across reporting areas.
Summary Matrix of Calculated Variables (CV) in the 2021 Data File
The data files are provided in both ASCII and SAS Transport formats. There are 227,191 records in the MMSA data set.
2021 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (ASCII) [ZIP – 18.8 MB]
Data released November, 2022
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 368 positions.
2021 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (SAS Transport Format) [ZIP – 39.6 MB]
Data released November, 2022
This file was exported from SAS V9.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 153 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 MMSA21_SASOUT.SAS program.
MMSA Variable Layout [PDF – 140 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.
Format21.sas [SAS – 685 KB]
SAS for Windows program used to generate the 2021 format library.
Format21.sas7bcat [SAS7BCAT – 441 KB]
Format library used with the 2021 BRFSS SAS Data File.
MMSA21_SASOUT [SAS – 19.4 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the MMSA 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.
Formas21.sas [SAS – 64 KB]
SAS for Windows format assignment statements.
