CALPADS (calpads)

A per-academic-year Stata cleaning pipeline over CALPADS End-of-Year 1 (EOY1) Course Completion extracts (internally called crscomp), covering school years 2013–14 through 2017–18. A lightweight project (~1 month of work, a handful of .do files).

GitHub	https://github.com/chesun/calpads
Runs on (Scribe)	/home/research/ca_ed_lab/users/chesun/gsr/calpads
Entry point	do/master.do (note: master.do, not main.do)
Status	Offboarding / handoff; README is the handoff guide
Start with	README.md

Path changed after a server restructuring

The lab's server was reorganized after this project, inserting a users/ level into the path. do/settings.do may still set $projdir to the pre-restructuring location (.../ca_ed_lab/chesun/gsr/calpads) — use the current path above, and update settings.do to match if it hasn't been already.

What it is

For each school year, the pipeline cleans the raw EOY1 Course Completion extract into an analysis-ready dataset (course outcomes stored as labeled Stata missing values, grade-point handling, etc.). The README is a full handoff guide: §4 has a per-do-file input/output map and §6 collects known gaps and gotchas — read those before running.

How to run

From the repo root, in Stata:

1. Install the required Stata package (provides sieve(), used in the grade-point block) — see README §5.
2. do "./do/master.do"

Toggles default to OFF

master.do guards each step with a local doclean... = 0 toggle, all defaulting to 0. A bare do "./do/master.do" therefore runs nothing — set a step's toggle to 1 to run it. (See README §5.)

Documentation map

• README.md — the handoff guide (start here; §4 do-file map, §6 gotchas, §8 provenance).
• CLAUDE.md — project conventions.
• decisions/ — ADRs.
• doc/ — reference material (README §7).

Who to ask

• Christina Sun — author (christinasun101@gmail.com / ucsun@ucdavis.edu).