set_pyreadstat_meta_data

Survey.set_pyreadstat_meta_data(meta, type_of_scale_variables: str = 'numeric', erase_existing: bool = False, suppress_check_var_warning: bool = False)

Use metadata returned from the python package pyreadstat to set properties of the variables (or questions).

See pyreadstat for more information.

Parameters

metapyreadstat metadata object type

A pyreadstat metadata object.

type_of_scale_variablesstr

If a variable is of type ‘scale’, replace ‘scale’ by this string.

erase_existingbool

Whether the existing information about the variables should be overwritten.

suppress_check_var_warningbool

If True, don’t show a warning if there are ‘unusable’ variables. A variable is unusable, if we can not automatically create features for the corresponding question.