I have put together a guide and accompanying video showing one approach to using PCCF+ Version 6A1. The video can be found on YouTube at:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoGzP26NbE>
The guide is on our ‘How-to Guides’ page at: <http://library.queensu.ca/madgic/guides/PCCFplus_Guide.pdf>
While there are several ways of approaching the PCCF+, the video and guide propose a two-step process as follows:
1. Getting Postal Codes into SAS dataset format, so the PCCF+ program can read them.
2. Running the PCCF+ program to match your Postal Codes to Census geography.
On the Queen’s Data Services ‘How-to Guides’ page (http://library.queensu.ca/data/how_to_guides), I have put links to a guide, this video, and a sample SAS program (that you would use to bring a text file containing Postal Codes into SAS).
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoGzP26NbE>
The guide is on our ‘How-to Guides’ page at: <http://library.queensu.ca/madgic/guides/PCCFplus_Guide.pdf>
While there are several ways of approaching the PCCF+, the video and guide propose a two-step process as follows:
1. Getting Postal Codes into SAS dataset format, so the PCCF+ program can read them.
2. Running the PCCF+ program to match your Postal Codes to Census geography.
On the Queen’s Data Services ‘How-to Guides’ page (http://library.queensu.ca/data/how_to_guides), I have put links to a guide, this video, and a sample SAS program (that you would use to bring a text file containing Postal Codes into SAS).
Within the PCCF+ zipped package from DLI, Statistics Canada provides sample PCCF+ SAS programs to do the subsequent matching.
Your comments/suggestions to improve the guide/video are welcome.
