How Many Deviations From the Norm? A CCHS Exercise

So, now we're pumped and want to get our hands on the CCHS results for our local health region. Let Chuck be your guide as we move CCHS into action in SPSS! CCHS will be there to throw us a life-line if we get into rough waters... This computing exercise will introduce the public use microdata file of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) by addressing the issue of perceived unmet health care needs. These items were initially asked in the National Population Health Survey and subsequently continued in the CCHS. You will begin by finding a recent article that discusses this issue; and on the basis of this article and the data documentation for the CCHS, you will identify the variables relevant to this issue. You will then read variables into SPSS that will permit summarizing perceived unmet health care needs by health regions and that will enable the display of these outcomes in a GIS system.