Download and import an empty TIMSS public use file.

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

Usage

download_timss_iea(
  year = c("2019", "2015", "2011", "2007"),
  data_type = c("stud_par_dat", "teach_dat", "teach_stud_dat", "school_dat", "tracking")
)

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 TIMSS data sets see the EdSurvey package. The data is imported as a GADSdat object.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
iea_timss <- download_timss_iea(year = "2019",
                        data_type = "stud_par_dat")
}