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Create dictionary from DHS .MAP codebook

Source: R/read_dhs_dta.R
parse_map.Rd

Create dictionary from DHS .MAP codebook

Usage

parse_map(map, all_lower = TRUE)

Arguments

map

A character vector containing .MAP file, e.g. from `readLines()`.

all_lower

Logical indicating whether all value labels should be converted to lower case

Value

A data frame containing metadata, principally variable labels and a vector of value labels.

Details

Currently hardcoded for 111 char width .MAP files, which covers the vast majority of DHS Phase V, VI, and VIII. To be extended in the future and perhaps add other useful options.

Examples

mrdt_zip <- tempfile()
download.file("https://dhsprogram.com/data/model_data/dhs/zzmr61fl.zip",
              mrdt_zip, mode="wb")

map <- rdhs::read_zipdata(mrdt_zip, "\\.MAP", readLines)
dct <- rdhs:::parse_map(map)