# Presentation: 775343

## Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) Overview and SetX Debut

**Ann Aikin and Bob Sloss**
**2004 Data Users Conference Session #16**

**U.S. Department of Health and Human Services**
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**
**National Center for Health Statistics**

##  Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS), One Solution

- Public Health Service Act requires that: DHHS “publish, make available and disseminate such statistics on as wide a basis as is practicable.”[Section 308 (242m) (c) ]
-  Users also report wanting greater access to data and documentation.
- They want it to be low cost and easy to use.

-  Public Use Data released in SETS format retains its original structure, codes, weights, values, field names, and documentation.
-  Developed, owned, and maintained by NCHS – no cost/license fees to NCHS or users.

##  Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) History

- 1991 - SETS developed
- 1993 - Federal Leadership Award for “outstanding achievement in information systems”
- 1996 - WINDOWS version of SETS
- 2000- Revision 805 released
- 2004 - SetX released for beta testing

- Currently users can obtain more than 70 SETS CD-ROMS featuring NCHS data and documentation.
- In the next six months, NCHS will release 4-8 new data sets in the SETS version.

## SETS User Affiliation

- *Other includes Congressional staff, policymakers, philanthropists, non-profits, contractors and consultants

## SETS Features: An Overview

**SETS Designer Kit**
**SETS ASCII Editor**
**SETS Interface**
- Searching SETS
**Documentation files**
**field labels **
**code labels**
- Browsing Data File
- Selecting Records
- Recoding

- Tabulating
**Frequencies**
**Percents**
**Weights**
- Charting
- Exporting/Extracting
**SAS, SPSS, Excel, and more...**
**SETS QuickTab Generator**Allows for speedier tabulations, without documentation files.

## SETS Features: Designer Kit and Editor

**SETS Designer Kit**
- Build child sets
- Or design your own!

**SETS Editor**Powerful ASCII Editor—for editing large, complex data sets.

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

- The SETS Interface—Data and documentation available together!
- The interface is available on every SETS CD, on the NCHS Internet site (download), and on the SETS software CD.

-  Revision 805 is the most current version.

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

**Searching in SETS: Documents, fields ****and codes**

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

**Browsing in SETS**

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

**Selecting Records and Recoding Fields**

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

**Tabulating: Frequencies, Percents, ****Rates and Weights**

## SETS Features: The SETS Interface

**	****Exporting and Extracting Data****(SAS, SPSS, Excel, ****and more...)**

## SetX: Meeting User Needs

- Emerging need for more analytic tools in SETS
- Need to add Internet components
- Pressure to make table generation more user friendly
- Other enhancements

##  Statistical Export and Tabulation System (SETS) Contacts

_**SETS@cdc.gov**_
_**SetX@cdc.gov**_
_**http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/sets.htm**_
_**http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/sets/listservsets.htm**_
-  **(919) 541-4238**

## Ann Aikin  (301) 458-4069 AAikin@cdc.gov

**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**
**National Center for Health Statistics****U.S. Department of Health and Human Services**

**2004 Data Users Conference ****Session #16**

**Bob Sloss**** ******** (301) 458-4508****** _**RSloss@cdc.gov**_