Sex column missing in data

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Sex column missing in data

Closed this issue 2 months ago · 4 comments

As in the title - no such column where there previously used to be. This is both on the app and on the child by item downloads from the website.

Answer 1 · 2024-07-15T11:11:42.000Z

Thanks, can you provide a minimal working example? We are running a tutorial today on Wordbank as it happens and have many live sex-based analyses running. Which dataset is this?

Answer 2 · 2024-07-15T14:28:52.000Z

I've tested with French (French), Italian, and Japanese.

library(wordbankr)
french_data <- wordbankr::get_instrument_data(language = 'French (French)', form = 'WG', administration_info = T, item_info = T)

The column is also missing when downloading child-by-item from the website, when it wasn't previously. I can see the data does exist because when I plot split by gender and then download raw I can get Sex information from that.

Answer 3 · 2024-07-16T10:37:19.000Z

Hi Sam, I think this may be a functionality change not a bug - we don't provide demographics on instrument data (because the data transfer is too large due to repeating the demographics 600+ times for every administration). But it's easy to join this data back in, see our IASCL tutorial from yesterday. :) https://github.com/mcfrank/iascl-wordbank-tutorial/blob/2aafa5d46d57154817949b04da37dcb46ce98557/iascl-wordbank-tutorial-solutions.qmd#L294

Answer 4 · 2024-07-16T12:27:49.000Z

Ah sorry I didn't see the function change! Yes confirm that solves the issue for the use cases we have over here. Thanks for the quick response (and sorry to miss IASCL).