2018 SMART: BRFSS City and County Data and Documentation

Survey Data Information

2018 SMART BRFSS MMSA Weighting Methodology pdf icon[PDF – 234 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.

Data Files

The data files are provided in both ASCII and SAS Transport formats. There are 221,587 records in the MMSA data set.

2018 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (ASCII) zip icon[ZIP – 18.8 MB]
Data released December, 2020
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 324 positions.

2018 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (SAS Transport Format) zip icon[ZIP – 39.6 MB]
Data released December, 2020
This file was exported from SAS V9.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 145 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: some of the variable labels become truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the MMSA15_SASOUT.SAS program.

MMSA Variable Layout pdf icon[PDF – 65 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.

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.

Format18.sas sas icon[SAS – 549 KB]
SAS for Windows program used to generate the 2018 format library.

Format18.sas7bcat [SAS7BCAT – 381 KB]
Format library used with the 2018 BRFSS SAS Data File.

MMSA18_SASOUT zip icon[ZIP – 4 KB]
SAS for Windows program to convert the MMSA ASCII file into a SAS dataset.

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

Formas18.sas sas icon[SAS – 53 KB]
SAS for Windows format assignment statements.