In the github repo https://github.com/maartenteaches/pen2stata I have made a collection of .do files for importing Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) data available. CIFOR's Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) global dataset collected uniform socio-economic and environmental data at household and village levels in rural areas of developing countries. It comprise of 8,301 households in 334 villages located in 24 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. There is an emphasis on how these households interact with tropical forests in their neighborhood.
This data can be obtained from https://doi.org/10.17528/CIFOR/DATA.00021 , as a collection of .csv files. The .do files in the repo import these files, turn numeric missing value codes into Stata missing values codes, add variable, value, and data labels, and add notes with the text of the questions.
What is in these .do files is not particularly hard or special, it is just a lot of work. I hope that by making this available, I can safe someone else from replicating that effort.
This data can be obtained from https://doi.org/10.17528/CIFOR/DATA.00021 , as a collection of .csv files. The .do files in the repo import these files, turn numeric missing value codes into Stata missing values codes, add variable, value, and data labels, and add notes with the text of the questions.
What is in these .do files is not particularly hard or special, it is just a lot of work. I hope that by making this available, I can safe someone else from replicating that effort.
