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School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) 2003-04
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Public-Use File

This disk contains the data and documentation for the School Survey on Crime and
Safety, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and conducted
in the spring of the 2003-04 school year. The following files are provided:

SSOCS 2003-04 data files:
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SSOCS_PUF.SAS7BDAT  - SAS public-use data file
FORMATS.SAS7BCAT - format library
FORMATS.SAS - SAS format statements
LABELS.TXT - SAS label statements for variables 
SSOCS_PUF.SAV - SPSS for Windows public-use data file
SSOCS_PUF.TXT - ASCII fixed-format public-use data file for 
		      importation into other software packages
SSOCS_PUF_READ.SAS - SAS program to read the ASCII fixed-format 
		     data file into a SAS data set
SSOCS_PUF_READ.SPS - SPSS program to read the ASCII fixed-format 
		     data file into an SPSS data set



SSOCS documentation:
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2007333.PDF - 2003-04 SSOCS Public-Use Data File Codebook
2007335.PDF - 2003-04 SSOCS Data File User's Manual
README.TXT - this "read me" file 


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A note to SAS users
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The SAS data file is in the format used for SAS version 8.2.

The SAS data set has user-defined value-label formats. These are
provided in the FORMATS.SAS data set. Based on FORMATS.SAS the format catalog
FORMATS.SAS7BCAT has been created.

For processing SSOCS SAS data, users should include the format catalog using
the following statement:

  LIBNAME LIBRARY 'PATH'; *path in which the FORMATS.SAS7BCAT file is located;

For example, if the FORMATS.SAS7BCAT file is placed in the C:\ directory, users
would use the following statement: 

  LIBNAME LIBRARY 'C:\'; *path in which the FORMATS.SAS7BCAT file is located;

Alternatively, the following statement could be used:

  %INCLUDE 'PATH\formats.sas'; *path in which the FORMATS.SAS file is located;

Continuing the example above, if the FORMATS.SAS file has been placed in 
the C:\ directory, users would include the following statement:

  %INCLUDE 'C:\formats.sas';

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Reading the ASCII (text) fixed-format data file
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This disk contains a SAS program to read the ASCII (text) fixed-format data 
file (SSOCS_PUF.TXT).

To use the SAS program (SSOCS_PUF_READ.SAS), you must specify the 
correct path to the ASCII (text) fixed-format data file (SSOCS_PUF.TXT).

The default location specified in the program is C:\.  To specify 
a different location for the SSOCS_PUF.TXT, FORMATS.SAS, and LABELS.TXT files, 
modify the following macro variable statement:

%LET path = C:\ ;

For example, if you have copied the files to C:\PROJECTS, then make this change to
the macro variable:

%LET path = C:\PROJECTS ;