.dat file

[mabelen3904]

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!

[Kurt_Bremser]

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

[Reeza]

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 

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

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.

[mabelen3904]

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