Title: Health data on older Americans, United States, 1992 [electronic resource]
/ National Center for Health Statistics
- Distribution Media: 5 1/4" floppy diskettes
- Series: Vital and health statistics. Series 3, Analytical and
epidemiological studies; no. 27
- SuDoc Number:HE 20.6209/4:3/1
Abstract: This data collection includes 170 tables presenting data from
various sources concerning the health status and determinants of health of older
persons. Data on persons aged 55-64 years are included for comparison purposes.
Topics include health status, health care use and its cost and special topics such as
the health of older black Americans and international aging.
Extent of Collection: The distribution media contained self-extracting
compressed files, instructions for decompressing the files, a DOS installation
program and DOS batch files. The UCSD floppy 2 distribution diskette was not
readable. The files on this diskette were obtained
from the
Floppy Disk Project at Indiana University.
Data Conversion: The DOS compressed files were extracted and the
DOS Lotus 123 data tables are available in their original format. The Lotus
tables were translated to ASCII CSV table format. Extraneous ASCII
characters were removed from the ASCII installation instructions and the
"fixed" file saved with a .TXT file extension.
A separate spreadsheet table finding guide was extracted from the DOS Lotus
123 documentation file AGEGUIDE.WK1. This file was saved in ASCII text format.
The table finding guide can be used to identify tables in the translated
ASCII CSV tables, and printed
and PDF versions of these
spreadsheet tables. For more information about data conversion, see
File Processing and Quality Control.
Minimum Software Requirements: (1) Software capable of reading ASCII
text files. (2) Statistical software capable of importing ASCII CSV files.
- ASCII text - text files can be read by most file viewers and
word processing software.
- ASCII data - text data files can be imported into most
statistical and database software. Data values may or may not
use separators. Common separators are commas (ASCII CSV), tabs
or spaces.
Files: DOS ASCII files contain carriage return characters. ASCII
files do not contain cariage return characters. For information about
downloading these files, see Downloading Tips
Original Diskette Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
Decompressed Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
Processed Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
|
INSTRUCT.TXT - installation instructions - DOS ASCII |
|
INSTRUCT.TXT
- "fixed" installation instructions - ASCII |
[DIRECTORY]
INSTALL.EXE - install program - DOS
*.BAT - DOS batch files - DOS ASCII
AGE*.EXE - compressed data files - DOS self extracting |
AGEGUIDE.WK1 - table guide for print, PDF, data files - DOS Lotus 123 |
AGEGUIDETABLE.TXT - table guide for data files - ASCII |
[DIRECTORY]
*.WK1 - data tables - DOS Lotus 123 |
[DIRECTORY]
*.CSV - data files - ASCII CSV |
Related Publications:
Bibliographic Citation: Van Nostrand, JF., Furner, SE., and Suzman, R., eds.
HEALTH DATA ON OLDER AMERICANS, UNITED STATES: 1992 [Computer file]. Washington,
D.C.: National Center for Health Statistics. [producer], [1992]. Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office [distributor], 1993.
