REDATAM microdata converted to R and CSV formats.

This was converted with the software available from https://github.com/pachadotdev/open-redatam/.

Available datasets:

Download these from the releases page.

• Argentina: 1991, 2001, 2010
• Bolivia: 2001, 2012
• Chile: 1992, 2002, 2017
• Ecuador: 2010, 2015 (Galapagos)
• El Salvador: 2007
• Guatemala: 2018
• Peru: 2007, 2017
• Mexico: 2000, 2010, 2020

All the text variables were converted to UTF-8 and we provide the variables codification as metadata.

Please read our article for the full context of this project (Open Access):

Vargas Sepúlveda, Mauricio and Barkai, Lital. 2025. "The REDATAM format and its challenges for data access and information creation in public policy." Data & Policy 7 (January): e18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.4.

We thank Emanuel Agu for providing the raw data for Chilean census 1992 and 2002.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License and it is also available from OpenICPSR.