lucasmation/microdadosBrasil: Reads most common Brazilian public microdata (CENSO, PNAD, etc) easy and fast

A set of simple functions to read most commonly used public microdata on Brazil. Downloads and reads the main datasets from IBGE, INEP and MTE for all years available on-line. Handles csv and fixed width format (fwf) data, for which it includes dictionaries. The core "read_data" function is based on readr (for fwf) and data.table (for csv), thus is fast. Metadata harmonization tables and wrapper functions, such as read_CENSO, read_PNAD, read_CensoEscolar and read_RAIS, handle the details of each dataset-year and make this package easily extendable. See the website for microdadosBrasil on github for more details.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("lucasmation/microdadosBrasil")