Clean and Munge UK Demographic Data

Source: R/clean_demographics_uk.R

A function that imports UK demographic data as two seperate files, with demographics from 2001 to 2015 and demographics from 2000 only. Demographic data can be filtered by country, and either saved to disk or returned to the R enviroment. Summary plots can be returned in order to check the data. Data can be downloaded here

clean_demographics_uk(data_path = "~/data/tb_data/UK_demographics",
  demo_2000 = "UK_2000_age.csv",
  demo_2001_2015 = "UK_2001_2015_age.csv", countries = c("E"),
  return = TRUE, save = TRUE, save_name = "E_demo_2000_2015",
  save_path = "~/data/tb_data/tbinenglanddataclean",
  save_format = "rds", verbose = TRUE, theme_set = theme_minimal)

Arguments

data_path

A charater string containing the file path to the demographic data.
demo_2000

A character string containing the file name of the demographic data for 2000.
demo_2001_2015

A character string containing the file name of the demographic data from 2001-2015
countries

A character string, indicating with intials the countries to include in the dataset. By default only England (E) is included.
return

Logical, defaults to TRUE. Specifies whether to return cleanded data.
save

Logical, defaults to FALSE. Specifies whether to save data
save_name

A character string contaning the file name for the data to be saved under.
save_path

The filepath for the data to be saved in
save_format

A character vector specifying the format/formats to save the data into, defaults to rds. Currently csv is also supported. See save_data for details.
verbose

A logical indicating whether summary information should be provided.
theme_set

The ggplot theme to apply to the summary graphs, defaults to theme_minimal

Value

A tidy tibble of demographic data by age between 2000 and 2015 for the specified countries.

Examples