README.md

ipaclean

The IPA Data Cleaning Package (ipaclean) is a Stata package that contains IPA's custom Stata programs for cleaning & validating survey data. The package includes the following programs:

Programs

• ipaappend - Safely append datasets
• ipamegre - Safely merge datasets
• ipaodksplit - Split select_multiple responses into dummy variables
• ipaodkmergerepeats - Reshape and merge ODK/SurveyCTO stype repeat groups in wide format
• ipacompare - Compare data from multiple rounds of survey
• ipacodebook - Export nicely formatted codebooks to excel

Installation

* ipaclean may be installed directly from GitHub
net install ipaclean, all replace from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PovertyAction/ipaclean/main")
net install ipahelper, all replace from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PovertyAction/ipahelper/main")

ipaclean update

* after initial installation ipaclean can be updated at any time using
ipaclean update

* to verify you have the latest versions of the commands
ipaclean version

Learn about ipaclean

Check out the IPACLEAN wiki for more information about ipaclean.

If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example on github. For questions and other discussion, please email us at researchsupport@poverty-action.org.

Current Author(s)

• Ishmail Azindoo Baako
• Dalyo Sid Ousmane Ourba
• Arsène Baowendmanegré Zongo

Acknowledgement

• ipaodksplit is partly based on the odksplit command written by A.R.M Mehrab Ali(https://github.com/ARCED-Foundation)
• ipaodkmergerepeats is heavily based on odkmergerepeats written by Chris Boyer
• ipacodebook is inspired by cbook_stats written by Michael Rosenbaum. The template() and applyusing options of the command are inspired by the iecodebook command from the World Bank DIME Analytics Team.