BRFSS 1991 Survey Data and Documentation

Data Files

There are 87,846 records for 1991. More information on participation is available in the States Conducting Surveillance by Year table. The data files are provided in both ASCII and SAS Transport formats.

1991 BRFSS Data (ASCII) Cdc-zip[ZIP – 5 MB]
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 500 positions.

1991 Summary Data Quality Report Cdc-pdf[PDF – 330 KB]

1991 BRFSS Data (SAS Transport Format) Cdc-zip[ZIP – 9 MB]
This file was exported from SAS V8.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 180 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels are truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the SASOUT91.TXT 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.

sasout91.sas Cdc-sas[SAS – 55 KB]
SAS program format statements, variable labels, and value labels.

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