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Multiple years and/or grades #56

Closed vrosenboom closed 5 years ago

vrosenboom commented 5 years ago

I've had a few folks ask about downloading multiple years and grades in one line of code. I wasn't sure if there was talk about this functionality, but I thought I'd flag the issue. Right now I'm just recommending looping through the educationdata call for a given year and/or grade, saves it as a tempfile, and then later appends them all together.

ericatheresa commented 5 years ago

This should already be possible, for example: educationdata using "district ccd enrollment race sex", sub(year=2011:2015 grade=6:8) clear

grahamimac commented 5 years ago

Exactly. help educationdata should have examples of how to do this right at the top of the help page.

If people are finding this too slow, they can download the CSVs (examples also provided right at the top of the help page) using the csv option. E.g., you can modify Erica's query if they'd like:

educationdata using "district ccd enrollment race sex", sub(year=2011:2015 grade=6:8) csv clear

grahamimac commented 5 years ago

Closing this as resolved, but please let me know if I missed anything.