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Networks of Guatemala team repo
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Create income and engagement checks using ENCOVI data #41

Open jarmg opened 5 years ago

jarmg commented 5 years ago

Goal: Use 2014 ENCOVI data to extract income estimates and political engagement estimates for each municipality. Should result in a script in R that has functions which take get income estimates and other political info (like whether people attend protests or have voted) for each muni

Relevant resources: data:

You can look at /NetworksOfGuatemala/gem/gem_stats.R for an example of how to import and work with an spss file.

Sebassc123 commented 5 years ago

Some questions: Is it important to do the Script in R to get the income estimates or could I search for another way to do this? There is a lot of files on the ENCOVI data, most of them are regarding to food intakes and agricultural engagement and stuff like that, should I look for important information on this files?

jarmg commented 5 years ago

Yes, you should do this in R, but the work in R will only be a few lines of code (and I can help you with it). The coding is not the important (or hard) part of this - the important part is identifying the data in the dataset.

Yeah, exactly - you should identify the useful data in this dataset (I have a list of relevant topics below). I would recommend using the actual survey so you don't have to look through each file individually, but you can look through the separated data if you want.

Most important is data that deals with any of the following topics: