Learn how to merge HINTS data for statistical analysis. Dr. Rick Moser, lead HINTS methodologist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), narrates a series of videos that demonstrate how to merge data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). In this first video, he explains the benefits of merging two or more sets of HINTS data and gives an overview of what to do within the SAS software to merge and analyze the data. HINTS, part of the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, collects data about the use of cancer-related information by the American public. hints.cancer.gov/about-hints/learn-more-about-hints.aspx
In this second video, Dr. Moser explains how to create indicator variables and assign value labels to distinguish between two or more survey iterations.
In this third video, Dr. Moser explains how to create a new, merged data set from two or more survey iterations and verify all the data is accounted for in the new set.
