Pacification Attitude Analysis System (PAAS) Data File, March 1970 - December 1972

A National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) file unit containing data files for the Pacification Attitude Analysis System (PAAS).

Items

RG330.PAAS.N7072

A NIPS Data File.

The file as provided by NARA contains extraneous white space characters at multiple positions. This was causing parsing errors with PyNIPS. The extraneus EBCDIC white space characters always appear in blocks of 840 or 703 characters. Removing these blocks of white spaces makes the file parseable.

The white space was removed using following command:

sed -i -E 's/@{840}//g' RG330.PAAS.N7072
sed -i -E 's/@{703}//g' RG330.PAAS.N7072

Note that the EBCDIC white space character (0x40) corresponds to the ASCII character @.

RG330.PAAS.Q70T72

A NARA de-NIPS'd version from 1978 (see technical documentation for more information). Contains PAAS Question Records.

RG330.PAAS.P70T72

A NARA reformatted version. Contains PAAS Person Records.

Technical Documentation and Supplementary Files