BRFSS 2001 Survey Data and Documentation

2001 Survey Data Information

2011 BRFSS Overview pdf icon[PDF – 53 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.

2001 BRFSS Codebook pdf icon[PDF – 717 KB]
Codebook for the file showing variable name, location, and frequency of values for all reporting areas combined.

2001 Summary Data Quality Report pdf icon[PDF – 507 KB]

Comparability of Data pdf icon[PDF – 66 KB]
Comparability of data across reporting areas.

BRFSS Modules Used by State
BRFSS Modules Used by Category
Arranged by state or by category for the combined landline and cell phone data set.

Calculated Variables in Data pdf icon[PDF – 66 KB]

Data Files

There are 212,510 records for 2001. More information on participation is available in the States Conducting Surveillance by Year table.

2001 BRFSS Data (ASCII) zip icon[ZIP – 19 MB]
Data Updated October 8, 2004
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 950 positions.

Variable Layout pdf icon[PDF – 23 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.

2001 BRFSS Data (SAS Transport Format) zip icon[ZIP – 34 MB]
Data Updated October 8, 2004
This file was exported from SAS V8.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 294 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels get truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the SASOUT01.SAS program.

SAS Resources

The following files are included for use with SAS software developed by SAS Institute, Inc. The SAS files are programs that can be read using any text editor. Save SAS files as plain text files.

Format01.sas sas icon[SAS – 91 KB]
SAS for Windows program used to generate the 2001 format library.

format01.sc2 [SC2 – 332 KB]
Format library used with the 2001 BRFSS SAS Data File.

sasout01.sas sas icon[SAS – 31 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the ASCII file into a SAS dataset.

transprt sas icon[SAS – 3 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the XPT (SAS Transport) file into a SAS dataset.

formas01.sas sas icon[SAS – 10 KB]
SAS for Windows format assignment statements.