I am using R software to work on ATUS data. When I download the dataset and open in my R, I have noticed that RECTYPE and CASEID does not appear in my dataframe - even though I made sure to have them selected when I download. In fact, in my [ddi] I can see that there is RECTYPE and CASEID as variables. Can anyone offer some insight to what’s going on?
Thank you, Sang-O, for alerting the IPUMS team to this issue. Our IT team found and fixed the bug in our xml files that was causing RECTYPE to not be visible in hierarchical ATUS extracts in R. Any users experiencing this issue with previously created extracts should create and download a new extract and xml file to read into R, which will include the fix.