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2024 SMART: BRFSS City and County Data and Documentation
2024 SMART BRFSS MMSA Weighting Methodology [PDF – 339 KB]
Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, statistical, and analytical issues.
Calculated Variables in Data Files [PDF – 2 MB]
Description of risk factors by data variable name.
Comparability of Data [PDF – 400 KB]
Comparability of data across reporting areas.
Summary Matrix of Calculated Variables (CV) in the 2024 Data File
The data files are provided in both ASCII and SAS Transport formats. There are 229,226 records in the MMSA data set.
2024 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (ASCII) [ZIP – 14 MB]
Data released December, 2025
This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 368 positions.
2024 SMART BRFSS MMSA Data (SAS Transport Format) [ZIP – 25 MB]
Data released December, 2025
This file was exported from SAS V9.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 161 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 MMSA21_SASOUT.SAS program.
MMSA Variable Layout [PDF – 179 KB]
Format information on variable name by column position.
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.
Format24.sas [ZIP – 20 KB]
SAS for Windows program used to generate the 2024 format library.
Format24.sas7bcat [ZIP – 38 KB]
Format library used with the 2024 BRFSS SAS Data File.
MMSA24_SASOUT [ZIP – 6 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.
Formas24.sas [ZIP – 2 KB]
SAS for Windows format assignment statements.
