[SAMHDA Announcements] Archive Announcements: 2000 NHSDA

[SAMHDA-Announcements]

** New releases:

The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse is now available on the 
online data analysis system (DAS). You may access the 2000 NHSDA on the DAS 
at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cgi-bin/SDA12/hsda?samhda+nhsda00. Using the 
DAS, you may run analyses on the NHSDA, view the variable information and 
frequencies in the DAS codebook (HTML format), or download all or part of 
the data file and a corresponding data definition file and codebook (ASCII 
format).

To download the entire file, click on "Download a customized subset of 
variables/cases" from the initial DAS screen (the link provided above). On 
the next screen (1) select the delimiter you want, (2) select the type of 
data definitions you want (SAS, SPSS, or Stata), and (3) under "Select 
Variables to Include" change the selection for each variable grouping from 
"none" to "all". Hit "Continue" at the top of the screen. On the next 
screen, confirm that the options you have selected are correct and hit 
"Create the Files". The system will create an ASCII data file, data 
definition file, and codebook. Following the instructions for saving the 
files to disk. For the NHSDA, there is no difference between the archival 
data file and the data file for the DAS.  You can confirm that you have 
downloaded all variables and records by comparing your downloaded file to 
the file information in the DAS codebook under "Data Collection 
Description" (near the bottom). The NHSDA contains 58,680 records and 1,866 
variables.

The archival files, which include the ASCII data file, SAS and SPSS data 
definition statements, and PDF codebook are in the final stages of 
preparation and will be released later this week.

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