Data geeks, need some help with SAS

December 6, 2014 4:27 PM

I am working on SAS and the National Survey of Children's Health. I am trying to look at data just for the state of Massachusetts, and even after looking in the codebook I cannot figure out what the variable is to stratify by MA. I do not have SAS on my home computer and am looking to download this, any experience, is it just like the regular SAS? thanks http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition.html
posted by TRUELOTUS to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

I feel compelled to point out that SAS University Edition is "solely for your own internal, non-commercial academic purposes" - if you are doing any sort of professional work, you are likely violating the license by using SAS University Edition.

The primary difference for SAS University Edition is that it only allows 2 GB of memory on up to two processors. Mostly, you will find performance and memory limitations in SAS University Edition. The less obvious limitations are documented here.
posted by saeculorum at 5:39 PM on December 6, 2014

You can open the dataset in R: xpt files, sas7bdat files. Not sure if R plays nice with formatted variables (eg, state=1 formatted to show state="Alabama" in SAS).
posted by esoterrica at 5:54 PM on December 6, 2014

I am a student, so I am not violating the liscense. OK, I did figure this out but I am not struggling because my n values are correct, but my percentages are not because I need to weight the data. any advice? Do I really need SUDAAN?
posted by TRUELOTUS at 6:50 PM on December 6, 2014

*now
posted by TRUELOTUS at 6:50 PM on December 6, 2014

So I downed the SAS and the http link is not working, help!
posted by TRUELOTUS at 9:16 PM on December 6, 2014