The Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool, or FERRET as it is commonly called, will provide full access to complex large data sets through the Internet. It was developed to provide one-stop access to statistics from the
Current Population Survey (CPS) and the
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
FERRET provides the capabilities to: Useful FERRET Links For more information:
The National Center for Health Statistics
FERRET allows users to quickly locate current and historical information from these sources, get tabulations for specific information
they need, make comparisons between different data sets, create simple tables and download large amounts of data to desktop and larger
computers for custom reports.