Think Stats

Data Files from NSFG

This page contains data files from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), for use with the book Think Stats by Allen B. Downey.

These data are also available from the CDC; the only difference is that the files here are compressed with gzip. Note: if you have any problems using the compressed versions, please contact the author, not the CDC.

Federal law provides that these data may be used only for the purpose of health statistical reporting and analysis. Any effort to determine the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.

By downloading these data, you signify your agreement to comply with the following legal requirements:

To use these data for statistical reporting and analysis only;
To make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently and advise the Director, NCHS, of any such discovery; and
To not link this data set with individually identifiable data from any other data set.

In addition to those legal requirements, I would like to add the following ethical reminder:

These files contain data collected from people who were asked to provide personal information for statistical purposes. Some of this information may be considered sensitive.
Statisticians should work with this or any other statistical data with appropriate respect for the people who answered the questions.

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