Add schema for 2003 LEMAS survey #26
Merged
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Add a schema CSV for the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 2003 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 4411). The fixed-width text file and codebook can be downloaded from https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/4411. To build the schema, I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to extract the variable names from the codebook tables and `pdftotext` to extract lines that include the variable character position definitions. I separated the character positions using Excel's text-to-columns feature and did general cleanup in Excel.
|
Thanks! |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Add a schema CSV for the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative
Statistics (LEMAS): 2003 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies
(ICPSR 4411). The fixed-width text file and codebook can be downloaded
from https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/4411.
To build the schema, I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to extract the variable
names from the codebook tables and
pdftotextto extract lines thatinclude the variable character position definitions. I separated the
character positions using Excel's text-to-columns feature and did
general cleanup in Excel.