Timeline of Alabama BRFSS Dataset (2014–2018)

By Asija

  • 2014 BRFSS Overview

    CDC describes BRFSS as the largest ongoing health survey system, collecting data on health risks, chronic conditions, and preventive services.

  • 2017 Initial Analysis

    Researchers analyzed the data to explore lack of medical care in Alabama.

  • 2017 Data Retrieved

    Subset of BRFSS data for Alabama stored in CSV format on a secure hard drive

  • June 2018

    New analyst discovered import errors due to unreadable characters in the CSV, causing missing rows in SQL.

  • 2018 New SQL Database

    Client expanded operations and set up a SQL database for storing and analyzing data.

  • 2018 Data Transfer

    Dataset and codebook copied to a flash drive and imported into the SQL database.