topic 2019 BRFSS data - truncation in SAS Programming

2019 BRFSS data - truncation

Flexluthorella — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:21:00 GMT

I'm trying to create a workable dataset from the 2019 BRFSS data. https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2019.html

issues:
LRECL =%endrec. - This errored out and wouldnt let me create dataset. There is no %let statement that specifies the value for this macro so I changed to LRECL = 2032 like in 2018 dataset. I dont understand why this is needed if the default is 32k

Variable "PAMISS1_" uninitialized - unsure why

Truncation of 1 or more variables

Re: 2019 BRFSS data - truncation

ballardw — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:12:23 GMT

I don't think the default lrecl value is 32k if you have set the RECFM=F or if you have changed the Lrecl system option.

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From experience the line length of BRFSS data files is not standard across years. So you might want to set the LRECL to some larger value.