Hi Eduardo,
Structured data will be useful for anyone visiting this thread. You can
send them to me (I'll add them to the Github link); or you can also post
them to a public server and post a link here.
best,
Dilawar
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Dilawar,
>
> Thank you so much! The SAS files were very useful in understanding the
> structure. They're surprisingly not mangled, just very strangely arranged!
> Let me know if you need them in .dta and I can share the files once I'm
> done cleaning them.
>
> Best,
> Eduardo
> On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 10:21:03 PM UTC-6 [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> Found one:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20130314062432/http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/districts/files/index.html
>> . SAS files are available in this snapshot.
>>
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>> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/>
>> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-3211> Github
>> <https://github.com/dilawar>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:45 AM Dilawar Singh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> These files are hopelessly mangled. I've extracted the data and put them
>>> here
>>> https://github.com/dilawar/data/tree/master/IndianDistrictDatabase/original
>>> . Most entries have 5 columns but some are one column and two columns.
>>>
>>> You can search for this site snapshots on the internet archive and if
>>> you are lucky, some old snapshots might have the currently missing SAS
>>> files. The last time I tried, their search engine was having issues:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=http%3A%2F%2Fvanneman.umd.edu%2Fdistricts%2Ffiles%2Findex.html
>>>
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>>> Dilawar Singh, Ph.D.
>>> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/>
>>> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-3211> Github
>>> <https://github.com/dilawar>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Have any of you successfully read the .data files in the Indian
>>>> Districts Database (http://vanneman.umd.edu/districts/files/index.html)?
>>>> I tried reading them in R as ASCII and elsewhere as text files or tab
>>>> separated files and all I got was a single column of about 150K rows with
>>>> what looked like the data but with no sense of which column corresponds to
>>>> which variable. Also, the SAS command files are not available (links
>>>> broken).
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Eduardo
>>>>
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