read_ipums_ddi

Reads the metadata about an IPUMS extract from a DDI file into R.
Includes information about variable and value labels, terms of
usage for the data and positions for the fixed-width file.

An easy way to import census, survey and geographic data provided by 'IPUMS'
into R plus tools to help use the associated metadata to make analysis easier. 'IPUMS'
data describing 1.4 billion individuals drawn from over 750 censuses and surveys is
available free of charge from our website <https://www.ipums.org>.

Derek Burk 

ipumsr

Read 'IPUMS' Extract Files

Greg Freedman Ellis 

Joe Grover 

Finn Roberts 

Dan Ehrlich 

Renae Rodgers 

Minnesota Population Center 

read_ipums_ddi function

<dl><dt>ddi_file</dt>
<dd>Filepath to DDI xml file</dd>
<dt>data_layer</dt>
<dd>If ddi_file is an extract with multiple DDIs, dplyr
<code><a href="https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/select.html">select</a></code>-style notation indicating which .xml data
layer to load.</dd>
<dt>lower_vars</dt>
<dd>Logical indicating whether to convert variable names
to lowercase (default is FALSE, in line with IPUMS conventions)</dd></dl>

Arguments

Read metadata about an IPUMS extract from a DDI (.xml) file — read_ipums_ddi

<dl>

<dt>ddi_file</dt>
<dd>Filepath to DDI xml file</dd>


<dt>data_layer</dt>
<dd>If ddi_file is an extract with multiple DDIs, dplyr
<code><a href='https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/select.html'>select</a></code>-style notation indicating which .xml data
layer to load.</dd>


<dt>lower_vars</dt>
<dd>Logical indicating whether to convert variable names
to lowercase (default is FALSE, in line with IPUMS conventions)</dd>

</dl>

read_ipums_ddi: Read metadata about an IPUMS extract from a DDI (.xml) file

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