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Jo-Schie / sdg

Shiny Application to load a databse of project evaluation indicators from a google-sheet and display them in a website.
MIT License
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Specifying on which year a survey is available for a specific country #2

Closed fBedecarrats closed 5 years ago

fBedecarrats commented 5 years ago

For now, surveys are mentioned as a global entity, e.g. for MICS or DHS, we include the covered countries and the date when these surveys started at global level. It would be useful to know precisely, say for which years a MICS survey is available for Mali. This could be done by web scrapping the corresponding pages (http://mics.unicef.org/surveys, http://mics.unicef.org/surveys), and possibly others (IHSN, LSMS, world bank microdata catalog). A few of them have APIs, but it is only a minority. The script would be more for back-office maintenance for the app developers/admins, as it will need to be handled carefully. It will not be accessible to the user through the shiny interface.

Jo-Schie commented 5 years ago

Sounds good. I have no time at the moment though because I'm still trying to bank my head through the wall of R-Studio not really connecting well to git.

fBedecarrats commented 5 years ago

I closed this issue: now the script fetches all available surveys from IHSN catalog and maps available sources for MICS and DHS. Future improvements could consieder expanding this for LSMS, Afrobarometer, etc.

Jo-Schie commented 5 years ago

nice. thanks!!