This screen displays a sample of what your records extraction output will look like and introduces you to the questions you'll need to answer. Lets select a number of southern states. This screen displays a list of all available variables from which you can choose the ones you're interested in. Note that here we've chosen only household variables. Now we'll define a filter that limits the selection to only households with dentists.
Lets look at households with at least one dentist.
Step 7 MicroAnalyst quickly estimates the amount of disk space the extraction will require. Since most uncompressed micro-datasets are gigabytes in size, this keeps you from accidentally creating an extract that is larger than your hard drive. After selecting the file name you want to create, MicroAnalyst extracts the individual records and displays them in all in a special grid which uses virtual memory management techniques that allow it to display millions of records at a time.