Data for the "Habitat Conservation Planning for Endangered Species" Study
Kareiva et al.

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Version: hcp-data-1999-01-14
14 January, 1999.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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The data contained in this distribution was used in the production
of the report "Using Science in Habitat Conservation Plans" by
Peter Kareiva et al.  The report and data are both available
electronically at:  http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/hcp/

Contact information:  Please direct any inquiries about this data 
or about the HCP report to: regetz@nceas.ucsb.edu, or refer to the
web site above for further information.

The data is provided in two formats: 1) the original data in CSV 
(comma separated value) ASCII text files; and 2) the data 
processed and transposed into column-major format as is expected
by common analytical programs such as SAS.  This second set of
data files, named *-final.csv below, will generally be most useful
for analysis in analytical environments such as SAS.  The original 
data files have been provided for compatibility with some programs
that can not handle large numbers of fields within a single data
table (e.g., Excel only supports 256 columns and will produce an
error on some of the final data sets).

METADATA
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All descriptions of the data set contents are provided through the 
HCP report available at the web site above.  In general the data sets
contain responses to the questionairres from the HCP surveys.  Each
question is listed by question number in the data set and is 
described in detail in the HCP report (see web site above).  In 
addition, a listing of the contents of the four final data sets 
is provided in the file "hcp-load.lst" (see below).

DATA
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The following is a description of the files in this distribution.

ORIGINAL DATA FILES
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AQ-Plan.csv
AQ-Spp.csv
PQdata.csv
SQdata.csv
aqextra.csv

FINAL DATA FILES (derived using hcp-load.sas and save.sas, see below)
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AQ-Plan-final.csv	Final data derived from AQ-Plan.csv and aqextra.csv
			NOTE***COMMENT COLUMNS ARE TRUNCATED AT 200 CHARACTERS
			COLUMNS AFFECTED: q13a q13b
AQ-Spp-final.csv	Final data derived from AQ-Spp.csv
PQdata-final.csv	Final data derived from PQdata.csv
SQdata-final.csv	Final data derived from SQdata.csv

SAS PROGRAMS for data processing
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hcp-load.lst		Output from hcp-load.sas, describes contents of the 
			four final data sets
hcp-load.sas		Program that loads, processes and transposes original
			four data files.  Products include four SAS format
			data sets for analysis, and produces a data content 
			listing
save-csv-h.mac		SAS Macro to produce CSV (comma separated value) 
			text files
save.sas		SAS Program that produces the four final csv files in
			text format from the SAS data files produced by running
			hcp-load.sas.  This program must be run after 
			hcp-load.sas so that required data sets have 
			been created
quality.sas		SAS code to produce data dump for QA checking
hist.sas		SAS code to produce data dump for QA checking

MISCELLANEOUS FILES
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README			This file
VERSION			Unique version number of this distribution