/nhis_exploratory

Contains National Health Interview Survey data and program that writes a parser for each dat file.

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Currently this directory contains the 2014 National Health Interview Survey data as well as a program I am finishing writing. This program in turn writes parser programs fo condensed ASCII files such as the following:

  1. familyxx.dat
  2. fmlydisb.dat
  3. funcdisb.dat,
  4. househld.dat
  5. INCMIMP.dat (which contains the compilation of INCMIP1 through 5.dat)
  6. injpoiep.dat
  7. paradata.dat
  8. personsx.dat
  9. samadult.dat
  10. samchild.dat.

The output of any parser that is built by the program is a CSV file.

There are subdirectories for each of the types of *.dat files.

TODO:

  1. Add command line functionality/arguments.
  2. Identify number of lines in *.dat file and use.
  3. Use try/except/else/finally for more exception handling.
  4. Perform unit testing.
  5. Document how to use the program.
  6. Document requirements for element_names and element positions files.