NCVS Resource Guide: Using Online Data Analysis

The Online Survey Documentation and Analysis is a set of programs for the documentation and web-based analysis of survey data and procedures for creating customized subsets of datasets. Online Data Analysis is available for NCVS with the Concatenated Household File, Concatenated Person File, and Concatenated Incident File.

Online data analysis is recommended for users who would like to search for variables of interest in a dataset, review frequencies or summary statistics of key variables to determine what further analyses are appropriate, review frequencies or summary statistics for missing data, produce simple summary statistics for reports, create statistical tables from raw data, and those who would like to create custom subsets of cases or variables from a particularly large collection to save time in downloading and space on a personal computer.