I’m starting a project that requires data from MICS, but I noticed that this collection does not have API support for extracting data yet. When I got an extract from the site manually, it consisted of.dat and .do files compressed as a .zip folder rather than the file formats described in the ipumsr tutorial. Is there still a way to interpret this extract via ipumsr? If not, are there plans to fold in MICS at some point?
IPUMS MICS provides MICS data in partnership with UNICEF. As part of our agreement, we are able to provide the original MICS data files from UNICEF with accompanying harmonization syntax files. Users must execute these harmonization syntax files in Stata in order to obtain the IPUMS version of MICS data. This page on the IPUMS MICS site provides instructions for downloading and opening your IPUMS MICS extract. The most straightforward way to read an IPUMS MICS dataset into R is to run the Stata .do file in Stata, save the resulting data file, and use a command to read a Stata-formatted data file into R (e.g., the read_dta command from haven).