Data: Find it, use it, cite itKaeli VandertulipFor Community Health Nursing

Finding Data Best Bets

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/ National Center for Health Statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ DSHS Center for Health Statistics: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/ Healthy People: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/ CMS Data: https://

www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/research-statistics-data-and-systems.html

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Other Options Google! Smaller studies (CINAHL, PubMed) Bibliographies (Try to find the original data set, not someone else’s report

on it)

Using Data

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_03.pdf

Displaying Data Table Figure (Graph)

Table vs. FigureTable

Text and numbers Charts Labeled column heads

Figure

Graphs Charts Maps Drawings Photographs

Referring to your Table/Figure Covered in APA Manual, Ch. 5 All figures/tables MUST be mentioned in your text

Supplement of text, not recreation of it

(See Table X for…) (Description, see Figure X) Figure X shows…

Example

Image source: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5728a1.htm

Citing DataReferences

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016, February). Natality public-use data 2007-2014. Retrieved from http://wonder.cdc.gov/natality-current.html

ReferencesKeyes, K. M., Susser, E., Cheslack-Postava, K., Fountain, C., Liu, K., & Bearman, P. S.

(2012). Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis among children born from 1992 to 2003 in California. International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(2), 495-503. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr193