Hi,
Hearty thanks to all for your responses.
Extracting fixed length information is relatively easy considering there is
separate data file for each level. My confusion on multiplier is not
getting clear. Why is there a separate multiplier file for complete data
and we also have last 10 bytes of
Greetings!
If you purchased data from NSSO it comes with a program (nesstar) that
extracts the data for you. Use this program and it will extract to
whichever format you would like including STATA.
Hope this helps.
Chandrasekhar
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:59 PM, Tarun Kateja
wrote:
> Hi
Hi Tarun,
Sachin is correct you use the layout file to identify which position in the
string of characters correspond to which variables. Even though I'm an R
user I think this extraction is more easily done in STATA. I've attached my
STATA code for the 68th round extraction
Since the NSSO
Hi Sachin,
I also want to extract 68th round Household and Consumer expenditure data.
I am little confused and have never worked with Stata. Can you explain what
is multiplier and how to use it? and can you share your code to extract
data from .txt file?
This will be a great help!
Thanks
Hi,
I have used 68th round data for agri consumption and poverty estimation
using STATA.
I am assuming that the raw data you are referring to is also available in
.txt format. As I know, the NSSO data has a highly structured format -
Schedule.Level>Block>Item No. The variables are not
