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

On Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 7:26:47 AM UTC-6 dilawar....@gmail.com 
wrote:

> 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 
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt <
> eduardoca...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>> On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 10:21:03 PM UTC-6 dilawar....@gmail.com 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-3211> Github 
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:45 AM Dilawar Singh <dilawar....@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dilawar Singh, Ph.D.
>>>> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/> 
>>>> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-3211> Github 
>>>> <https://github.com/dilawar>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt <
>>>> eduardoca...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
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