OpenFisca Survey Manager

Presentation

OpenFisca is a versatile microsimulation free software.

This is the source code to a survey manager when openfisca is used with data. It provides an API to access HDF data. It also provides a script that transforms SAS, stata, SPSS, CSV data files to HDF data files along with some meta-data so they can be used by the API.

Usage

To be able to use the survey manager you have to edit two configuration files.

• Copy raw_data_template.ini to raw_data.ini and edit the latter to reference the location of your raw data (SAS, stata, SPSS, CSV files). For paths in Windows, use / instead of \ to separate folders. You do not need to put quotes, even when the path name contains spaces.

• Copy config_template.ini to config.ini and edit its mandatory fields.

raw_data.ini and config.ini must not be committed (they are ignored by .gitignore).

These configurations files will be used by the script build_collection.py to build the HDF files.

Contribute

OpenFisca is a free software project. Its source code is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public Licence version 3 or later (see COPYING).

Feel free to join the OpenFisca development team on GitHub or contact us by email at contact@openfisca.fr