A Function that Combines the ONS Demographic Data, with the LFS Demographic Data

Source: R/combine_ons_with_lfs.R

This function takes demographic data summarised by clean_demographics_uk and clean_labour_force_survey and combines it into a single tidy dataset. Summary statistics and plots can be returned to check both datasets.

combine_ons_with_lfs(data_path = "~/data/tb_data/tbinenglanddataclean",
  ons_name = "E_demo_2000_2015.rds",
  lfs_name = "formatted_LFS_2000_2016.rds", countries = "England",
  return = TRUE, save = TRUE, save_name = "E_ons_lfs_2000_2016",
  save_path = "~/data/tb_data/tbinenglanddataclean",
  save_format = "rds", verbose = TRUE, theme_set = NULL)

Arguments

data_path

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

Character string of the file name of the ONS demographic data.
lfs_name

Character string of the file name of the LFS demographic data.
countries

A character string, the countries to include in the dataset. By default only England is included. Note this is reliant on the data being present in the demographic datasets.
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 for both ONS and LFS data.

Examples