Release version 0.3.6, see changelog for updates

[VivianSihanZHENG]

When doing label values for float variables, add nofix option to prevent display formats from being widened.

[VivianSihanZHENG]

Ok, when reviewing, I tested on

educationdata using "school ccd directory", sub(year=2018) clear

in a local directory. Two oddities stood out:

1. ncessch_num is all missing values. It's a long with %20.0g formatting, but doesn't appear. Any idea why this is the case?
2. latitude and longitude only have 2 digits after the decimal point as stored in the API, but I would expect these to have more (at least 6). Why are these missing?

Hi Graham,

Thanks for flagging them, and sorry about the confusions here! I think these issues already exist in the current version of the Stata package or API.

For 1, this is a separate issue in the current version of the package, and has been in my list to resolve. The issue was documented here: https://github.com/UrbanInstitute/education-data-package-stata/issues/57.

For 2, the 2-digit lat/lon are consistent with what's currently in the API (https://educationdata.urban.org/api/v1/schools/ccd/directory/2018/). This is another separate issue, where the float data type in MySQL automatically round the float variables. We already figured out the solution, and are about to fix it in production in this upcoming release. And data in staging has been fixed (e.g., https://educationdata-stg.urban.org/api/v1/schools/ccd/directory/2018/).

Please let me know if you have any questions, or see anything else.

Vivian

[VivianSihanZHENG]

Thanks Vivian. Looks good. Perhaps add a sentence to the sthlp file that says something like: "Using the cache option may increase the speed of the program if you or others have made similar requests recently."

Great thanks Graham! It was added in the help file.