Trouble reading Indian Districts Database's files

[Eduardo Campillo Betancourt]

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

[Dilawar Singh]

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]

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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[Eduardo Campillo Betancourt]

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

[Dilawar Singh]

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

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[Eduardo Campillo Betancourt]

Definitely! I'll share when I finish cleaning the panel