IASSIST file archive
This file archive for IASSIST members is intended to encourage the sharing of utilities for managing, manipulating and analyzing machine readable social sciences data files. This archive is intended for compiled programs, source code, and scripts, as well as other documentation about the management, manipulation, and use of machine readable social sciences data files. These files are provided as a courtesy of the authors, and no warranty is implied on behalf of IASSIST.
| File Name | Language | Author | Function |
| cio2 | PERL 4/5 | J. Jacobs | Checks data files. Prints part of file for examination. |
| cio3 | PERL 5 | J. Jacobs | Checks data files. Prints part of file for examination. |
| dmap | PERL | P. Yott | Converts datamaps for Card-Image data files into SPSS syntax (tested with ICPSR studies 0003 and 0013) |
| DUEL-1 | PERL | U.Penn (author unknown) | Converts Dualab formatted 1970 Census Count 4 data |
| elements | PERL | Paul Bern | Performs a case-insensitive search on variable names in a .csv file and reports the element number. |
| extract | PERL | Paul Bern | Suite of PERL utilities to simplify creating web-based data extractors |
| fix_codebook | PERL | A. Singer / J. Jacobs | Cleans up ICPSR Machine-Readable Codebooks |
| maxline | C | P. Holden | Look at line lengths and count 'odd' characters. Useful for a first quick (jaundiced?) look at an imported file. |
| o2a | PERL | J. Jacobs | converts ebcdic/binary osiris dictionaries to ascii |
| print_col | PERL | Paul Bern |
This program prints data from a flat file. The file can be compressed. You need to know the delimiter (default is comma), as well as the variable names. By default it will print the first 10 lines of data, but you can print other ranges |
| print_csv | PERL | Paul Bern |
This program prints data from a csv file. The file can be compressed. You need to know the delimiter (default is comma), as well as the variable names. By default it will print the first 10 lines of data, but you can print other ranges. |
| SpiresFilter | PERL 5 | P. Yott | Converts SPIRES records for ICPSR studies into an SGML catalog and creates individual HTML Files. |