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Download and import an empty IGLU public use file.

Source: R/download_iglu_iea.R
download_iglu_iea.Rd

Download and import an empty IGLU public use file (containing only the first data row) from the IEA homepage.

Usage

download_iglu_iea(
  year = c("2016", "2011", "2006", "2001"),
  data_type = c("stud_par_dat", "teach_ger_dat", "teach_math_dat", "teach_gen_dat",
    "teach_dat", "teach_stud_dat", "school_dat", "tracking", "testscores")
)

Arguments

year

Year of the assessment.

data_type

Type of the data.

Details

The function downloads a zip file from the IEA homepage into a temporary directory, unzips it and imports the data with only a single data row via read_sav. For downloading full IGLU data sets see the EdSurvey package. The data is imported as a GADSdat object.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
iea_iglu <- download_iglu_iea(year = "2016",
                        data_type = "stud_par_dat")
}