https://github.com/pachadotdev/redatam-microdata
Publicly available census microdata in R format (converted from REDATAM)
https://github.com/pachadotdev/redatam-microdata
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Publicly available census microdata in R format (converted from REDATAM)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pachadotdev/redatam-microdata
- Owner: pachadotdev
- Created: 2024-11-02T23:04:44.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-26T21:32:06.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-09T12:53:34.260Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: census, redatam, rstats
- Homepage: https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/211903/
- Size: 8.79 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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REDATAM microdata converted to R and CSV formats.
This was converted with the software available from https://github.com/pachadotdev/open-redatam/.
Available datasets:
Download these from the [releases](https://github.com/pachadotdev/redatam-microdata/releases/tag/2.0.2) page.
- Argentina: 1991, 2001, 2010
- Bolivia: 2001, 2012
- Chile: 1992, 2002, 2017
- Ecuador: 2010, 2015 (Galapagos)
- El Salvador: 2007
- Guatemala: 2018
- Peru: 2007, 2017
- Mexico: 2000, 2010, 2020
All the text variables were converted to UTF-8 and we provide the variables codification as metadata.
Please read our article for the full context of this project (Open Access):
> Vargas Sepúlveda, Mauricio and Barkai, Lital. 2025. "The REDATAM format and its challenges for data access and information creation in public policy." *Data & Policy* 7 (January): e18. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.4](https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.4).
We thank Emanuel Agu for providing the raw data for Chilean census 1992 and 2002.
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and it is also available from [OpenICPSR](https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/211903/version/V1/view).