topic Re: .dat file in SAS Software for Learning Community

.dat file

mabelen3904 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:33:06 GMT

Hello,

I am new here and needing some help with opening a ".dat" public data set file from the CDC website for my research project. It doesn't even allow me to attach the file on here because it's "unsupported". Here is the website with the download data links ftp.cdc.gov - /pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

I am needing the 2017-2019 FemRespdata

I have literally tried everything I could to try and open the file, including opening it on SPSS, but with no luck.

Please Help!

Re: .dat file

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 05:52:59 GMT

The "sas" subdirectory seems to contain a program for it.

Re: .dat file

Reeza — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:12:41 GMT

Dat is a text file, you should be able to view it in NotePad or Wordpad. If it’s too big, that’s a different issue.

You can import the file into SAS using the SAS program indicated by @Kurt_Bremser

Re: .dat file

Ksharp — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:31:37 GMT

As Reeza said. Try it.

Check Attachement. In it , want.sas7bdat is what you are looking for . 2017_2019_FemRespSetup.sas is sas code to import original data (you need change the path of data). 2017_2019_FemRespData.dat is the original data.

Re: .dat file

mabelen3904 — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:42:27 GMT

OMG!! Thank you so, so, so, so much. You have no idea how much I struggled with this. I am forever grateful!