ipumspy.ddi.VariableDescription

class ipumspy.ddi.VariableDescription(id, name, rectype, codes, start, end, label, description, concept, vartype, notes, shift)

Individual variables are described in the DDI. These are representations of those descriptions as dataclasses.

Attributes

numpy_type	The Numpy type of this variable.
pandas_type	The pandas type of this variable.
pandas_type_efficient	In contrary to self.pandas_type, self.pandas_type_efficient doesn't implement "Int64" type but "numpy.float64" for integer type.
python_type	The Python type of this variable.
id	variable id (this is the same as its name)
name	variable name
rectype	record type
codes	a dictionary of codes and value labels
start	variable's starting column in the extract data file
end	variable's final column in the extract data file
label	variable label
description	variable description
concept	IPUMS variable group
vartype	variable data type
notes	notes about this variable from the ddi
shift	number of implied decimal places

Methods

__init__
read	Read an XML description of a variable.