README

Getting Started

Scrape data from http://www.prisonstudies.org.
Last scraped Jan 2019.
For almost every country, the most recent year's data was manually entered from http://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/wppl_12.pdf.

$ npm install
$ node cheerio-scraper.js
$ node write-to-json.js

Executing cheerio-scraper.js overwrites './data/raw-data'.
A cleaned (edited) copy is located in './data/cleaned-data'.
Executing write-to-json.js overwrites './data/incarcerationRates.json'.

Totals

Total URLS: 226
No Data: 4
Total with data: 222 Edited: 8/226 = 3.6%

Edited Data

1. Canada
   1. (1 yr range, e.g. 1991-92 -> 1991)
2. Curacao-netherlands
   1. (Old data: misalignment)
3. Djibouti
   1. (Old data: misalignment)
4. Egypt
   1. (Old data: misalignment)
5. Isle-Man-United-Kingdom
   1. (1 yr range, e.g. 1991-92 -> 1991)
6. Jamaica
   1. (removed *)
7. Martinique-France
   1. (Old data: misalignment)
8. Netherlands
   1. (5 yr range, e.g. 1991-1995 -> 1993)
9. Rwanda
   1. (Failed to parse '+' addition)

No Data

1. Democratic-Peoples-Republic-North-Korea
2. Equatorial Guinea
3. Eritrea*
4. Guinea-bissau*
5. Laos*
6. San-Marino
7. Somalia
8. South Sudan*

*1-2 years data only.

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