topic Beginner here! I need help extracting ASCII data from HRSA and export it to excel in SAS Data Management

Beginner here! I need help extracting ASCII data from HRSA and export it to excel

SA19 — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:48:48 GMT

Hello all,

Thank you for your interest to help me. I am interested in downloading the Area Health Resource file. I have SAS university edition software and I have run the sas code that is included within the dataset to extract the .asc data. However in the OUTPUT, I can only see the columns but not the rows.

This is the website that I am trying to extract the data from:

https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/data/datadownload.aspx#MainContent_ctl00_gvDD_lbl_dd_topic_ttl_0

I am not sure what to do next.

Thank you!

Re: Beginner here! I need help extracting ASCII data from HRSA and export it to excel

ballardw — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:54:50 GMT

@SA19 wrote:

Hello all,

Thank you for your interest to help me. I am interested in downloading the Area Health Resource file. I have SAS university edition software and I have run the sas code that is included within the dataset to extract the .asc data. However in the OUTPUT, I can only see the columns but not the rows.

This is the website that I am trying to extract the data from:

https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/data/datadownload.aspx#MainContent_ctl00_gvDD_lbl_dd_topic_ttl_0

I am not sure what to do next.

Thank you!

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Re: Beginner here! I need help extracting ASCII data from HRSA and export it to excel

SA19 — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:00:41 GMT

I am not able to share the code as the data user agreement does not permit me to do so. However, anybody is able to access the data from the website on the condition of not sharing it. The code is available here: SAS format.

Thank you so much!

Re: Beginner here! I need help extracting ASCII data from HRSA and export it to excel

Reeza — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:12:18 GMT

I downloaded the file and ran the code with no issues. I don't think the log would be under restriction or the code, just the data. The agreement explicitly lists the data only.

Anyways, there were no issues with the log or the data and since it's a fixed file format it should be fine even in SAS UE.

The only modification I made was to the INFILE statement, I'm assuming you made the correct modification to that line as well?

@SA19 wrote:

I am not able to share the code as the data user agreement does not permit me to do so. However, anybody is able to access the data from the website on the condition of not sharing it. The code is available here: SAS format.

Thank you so much!