Read survey files from different formats and create a Survey object

Usage

load_survey(
  path = NULL,
  svy_type = NULL,
  svy_edition = NULL,
  svy_weight = NULL,
  svy_psu = NULL,
  ...,
  bake = FALSE,
  recipes = NULL
)

Arguments

path: Survey file path, file can be in different formats, csv, xtsx, dta, sav and rds
svy_type: String with the survey type, supported types; "ech" (Encuensta Continua de Hogares, Uruguay), "eph" ( Encuesta Permanente de Hogares, Argentina), "eai" (Encuesta de Actividades de Innovación, Uruguay)
svy_edition: String with survey edition information, support different time patterns: "YYYYMM"/"MMYYYY" (year- month), "YYYY" (year), ("YYYY-YYYY") date range
svy_weight: List with survey weight information specifing periodicity and the name of the weight variable. Recomended to use the helper function add_weight().
svy_psu: Primary sampling unit
...: Further arguments to be passed to load_survey
bake: Logical inicating if a recipes is processed when the data are loaded.
recipes: object, using helper function get_recipes()

Value

Survey object

Examples

ech_2022 <- load_survey(
metasurvey::load_survey_example(
 "ech",
 "ech_2022"
),
svy_edition = "2022",
svy_type = "ech",
svy_weight = add_weight(annual = "w_ano"),
recipes = get_recipe(
 "ech",
 "2022"
)
)
#> The API returned 1 recipes
#> Loading required package: data.table