Netlogo: How to subset with row and column indexes - netlogo

Question

Could someone help me out with the code on reading in data in Netlogo? I am trying to choose one element in multiple lists to assign it to the turtle as a variable (I have the data in a rectangular table read from a csv file).
In my current code, it reads as I want but the problem is it is reading only elements of one last row instead of iteratively reading elements (across columns) of all rows. What I need is to read one element of each row at a time.
here are some rows of my data
Here is what I have tried so far:
let residents-file "mock-data.csv"
let residents-list []
set residents-list csv:from-file residents-file
foreach residents-list [ ?1 ->
let hh-col ?1row
let residents-to-create 1
create-residents residents-to-create [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor ]
ask residents [
set shape "person"
set color 9
set ID item 0 hh-col
set occupancy item 1 hh-col]]

Answer 1

It looks like the issue is that you are using create-residents to create n residents, but then asking all residents to do something. In other words, no matter which row is currently being processed, all of the existing residents (whether created in this iteration or created in previous iterations) are being asked to pull the values from the row that is being processed on the current iteration.
The easiest way to fix this is probably just to have each resident pull the values as it's being created.
With this toy version of your dataset:
id occupancy
1 owner
2 renter
3 owner
4 renter
5 owner
Here is a simplified example:
breed [ residents resident ]
residents-own [ id occupancy ]
extensions [csv]
to setup
ca
let residents-file "mock-data.csv"
let residents-list but-first csv:from-file residents-file
foreach residents-list [ cur-row ->
create-residents 1 [
set id item 0 cur-row
set occupancy item 1 cur-row
]
]
ask residents [
print ( word "My who is " who ", my id is " id ", and my occupancy is " occupancy )
]
reset-ticks
end
Output should look something like: