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0-decompress-contracts-data.R

What it does:

• unzips each of the 180 yearmo raw contracts files

Output:

• 180 uncompressed raw contract files by year and month (e.g. 200003)

1-build-cols-to-grep.R

What it does:

• creates a function to load files from detailedcontracts
• builds a list of 12 monthly time slices
• subsets the data by approx. 60 covariates of interest
• builds a data table of the 12 time slices
• saves the dt as an annual "slice" (e.g. contracts-1999.Rdata)

Output:

• a 38 million x 5 data table