BRFSS 1996 Survey Data and Documentation

1996 BRFSS Overview [TXT - 24 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.

1996 BRFSS Codebook [TXT - 143 KB]
Codebook for the file showing variable name, location, and frequency of values for all reporting areas combined.

Summary Sample Design [TXT - 1 KB]
Summary of sample design and sample size.

1996 Summary Data Quality Report [PDF - 913 KB]

Comparability of Data [TXT - 11 KB]
Comparability of data across reporting areas.

BRFSS Questionnaire Content Plan [TXT - 1 KB]
Subject summary of core questionnaire content.

FIPS CODE [TXT - 221 KB]
State and county FIPS codes.

Estimated Telephone Coverage [TXT - 4 KB]
Estimated telephone coverage.

1996 BRFSS Data (ASCII) [ZIP - 9 MB]
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 650 positions.

Variable Layout [TXT - 25 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.

1996 BRFSS Data (SAS Transport Format) [ZIP - 17 MB]
This file was exported from SAS V8.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 263 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels are truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the SASOUT96.TXT program.

SASOUT96 [SAS - 157 KB]
SAS program format statements, variable labels, and value labels.

SUDAAN [TXT - 1 KB]
An example of a SUDAAN program for obtaining appropriate statistics

transprt.sas [SAS - 3 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the XPT (SAS Transport) file into a SAS dataset.