Area Resource File (ARF)

analyze the area resource file (arf) with r the arf is fun to say out loud. it's also a single county-level data table with about 6,000 variables, produced by the united states health services and resources administration (hrsa). the file contains health information and statistics for over 3,000 us counties. like many government agencies, hrsa provides only a sas importation script and an as cii file. this new github repository contains two scripts: 2011-2012 arf - download.R download the zipped area resource file directly onto your local computer load the entire table into a temporary sql database save the condensed file as an R data file (.rda), comma-separated value file (.csv), and/or stata-readable file (.dta). 2011-2012 arf - analysis examples.R limit the arf to the variables necessary for your analysis sum up a few county-level statistics merge the arf onto other data sets, using both fips and ssa county codes create a sweet county-level map click here to view these two scripts for mo re detail about the area resource file (arf), visit: the arf home page the hrsa data warehouse notes: the arf may not be a survey data set itself, but it's particularly useful to merge onto other survey data. confidential to sas, spss, stata, and sudaan users: time to put down the abacus. time to transition to r. :D本数据集为区域资源文件（Area Resource File，ARF），可通过R语言进行分析——其缩写ARF念起来颇为顺口。该数据集由美国卫生服务与资源管理局（United States Health Services and Resources Administration，HRSA）出品，为单张县级数据表，包含约6000个变量，涵盖全美超3000个县的健康相关信息与统计数据。 与多数政府机构一致，HRSA仅提供SAS导入脚本与ASCII文件。本全新GitHub仓库包含两份脚本： 1. `2011-2012 ARF - download.R`：可直接将压缩后的区域资源文件下载至本地计算机，将完整数据表加载至临时SQL数据库，并将精简后的文件保存为R数据文件（.rda）、逗号分隔值文件（.csv）或Stata可读格式文件（.dta）。 2. `2011-2012 ARF - analysis examples.R`：可根据分析需求筛选ARF中的必要变量，汇总若干县级统计指标，通过FIPS与SSA县级编码将ARF与其他数据集进行合并，还可绘制精美的县级地图。 若需查看这两份脚本的详细说明，或了解区域资源文件（ARF）的更多信息，请访问ARF官方主页及HRSA数据仓库。 备注：ARF本身并非调查类数据集，但用于与其他调查数据集进行合并时具有极高的应用价值。 致SAS、SPSS、Stata及SUDAAN用户：是时候放下算盘，转向R语言啦：D