dot-dct_to_fwf_df: Downloads the NBER Stata dct file and returns a dictionary...

In mkiang/narcan: Helper functions for working with multiple cause of death data

Downloads the NBER Stata dct file and returns a dictionary with column data

Description

The NBER has Stata dictionary files for each of the MCOD public use datasets or Natality public use datasets. This function downloads the dictionary file and converts it to a dataframe with column name, column start position, column end position, and column time (in readr::col() format).

Usage

.dct_to_fwf_df(year, natality = FALSE)

Arguments

year	year of the dictionary you want to convert
natality	set to TRUE if you want to download natality dictionaries

Value

dataframe

Source

http://www.nber.org/data/vital-statistics-mortality-data-multiple-cause-of-death.html

http://www.nber.org/data/vital-statistics-natality-data.html

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