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Parse a set of SPSS split command files for PUMF metadata

Source: R/metadata_parsers.R
parse_spss_split.Rd

Handles surveys where metadata is spread across separate files: *_i.sps (layout), *vare.sps (English variable labels), *vale.sps (English value labels), *miss.sps (missing values), with optional *varf.sps / *valf.sps for French.

Usage

parse_spss_split(layout_dir, layout_mask = NULL, encoding = "Latin1")

Arguments

layout_dir

Path to the directory containing the SPSS split files.

layout_mask

Optional string or regex; passed to find_unique_layout_file() to disambiguate when multiple sets of split files exist (e.g. SFS has both EFAM_PUMF_* and bsweights_pumf_* files in the same directory).

encoding

Character encoding, e.g. "Latin1" or "CP1252".

Value

A list with elements variables (name, label_en, label_fr, type, missing_low, missing_high), codes (name, val, label_en, label_fr), and layout (name, start, end; NULL if no layout file is found).