INFORMATION ABOUT PESTICIDE DATA PROGRAM 1995 DATA DOWNLOAD

** Approximately 40 MB of free disk storage space is needed to hold the
   de-compressed 1995 PDP data.

Instructions:
1) Click on the "1995 Data" link and save the 95data.exe self-extracting
   zip file to your local hard drive.
2) In Windows or DOS, launch the 95data.exe file to extract 22 files.
   There will be 5 executable files and 17 text files (described below).
3) Launch each of the 5 executable (.exe) files to extract the 5 ASCII
   fixed-length (.asc) data files.  Example: At the DOS prompt, type
   PDP95SAM and press the key.  The 6 (.exe) files can be deleted.
4) Print the Data Dictionary file (DATADI95.TXT) to see file layouts.
5) Create 2 database tables using your own database software that match
   the provided files layouts.  Import the 5 (.asc) files.
6) Print the 15 PDP code reference (.LST) files.  You can create database
   tables for these, remove the headings from the files, and import the
   codes/descriptions into look-up tables that can be linked to the data.

File descriptions:
  PDP95SAM.EXE  - Self-extracting executable which de-compresses to an
                   ASCII fixed-length data file (PDP95SAM.ASC) which holds
                   7,524 Sample Information records for 1995 PDP samples.
  PDP95RE1.EXE  - Self-extracting executable which de-compresses to an
                   ASCII fixed-length data file (PDP95RE1.ASC) which holds
                   110,272 Analytical Results records for 1st Qtr (Jan-Mar).
  PDP95RE2.EXE  - Self-extracting executable which de-compresses to an
                   ASCII fixed-length data file (PDP95RE2.ASC) which holds
                   109,130 Analytical Results records for 2nd Qtr (Apr-Jun).
  PDP95RE3.EXE  - Self-extracting executable which de-compresses to an
                   ASCII fixed-length data file (PDP95RE3.ASC) which holds
                   120,441 Analytical Results records for 3rd Qtr (Jul-Sep).
  PDP95RE4.EXE  - Self-extracting executable which de-compresses to an
                   ASCII fixed-length data file (PDP95RE4.ASC) which holds
                   92,880 Analytical Results records for 4th Qtr (Oct-Dec).

  DATADI95.TXT  - Data Dictionary that provides the file layouts for the
                   Sample Info data file (pdp95sam.asc) and the 4 Analytical
                   Results data files (pdp95re#.asc).  This is a text file
                   that requires compressed (132-column) print.

   Fifteen ASCII text files that can be used to reference and interpret the
   standard codes used in the PDP data:
  ANNOT95.LST   - valid PDP Annotation Codes & Descriptions
  CLAIM95.LST   - valid PDP Marketing Claim Codes & Descriptions
  CLASS95.LST   - valid PDP Test Class Codes & Descriptions
  CNTRY95.LST   - valid PDP Country Codes & Names for all Imported Samples
  COLTYP95.LST  - valid PDP Collection Site Type Codes & Descriptions
  COMMOD95.LST  - valid PDP Commodity Codes & Descriptions
  CONFME95.LST  - valid PDP Confirmation Method Codes & Descriptions
  CTYPE95.LST   - valid PDP Commodity Type Codes & Descriptions
  DETERM95.LST  - valid PDP Determinative Method Codes & Descriptions
  EXTRAC95.LST  - valid PDP Extraction Method Codes & Descriptions
  LABS95.LST    - valid PDP Participating Laboratory Codes & Cities
  MEAN95.LST    - valid PDP Mean of Result Codes & Descriptions
  PEST95.LST    - valid PDP Pesticide Codes & Names reported in 1995
  QUANT95.LST   - valid PDP Quantitative Method Codes & Descriptions
  STATE95.LST   - valid State Postal Codes & Names for 50 states

  READ95.ME     - Text file containing instructions & file descriptions