dow_soc_scor_boa {convergEU}

Downloader of social scoreboard indicators

Description

This is an "envelope function" to automate the download from Eurostat of all the indicators involved in the social scoreboard.

Usage

dow_soc_scor_boa(fromTime = 1999, toTime = 2018, rm.EU = FALSE)

Arguments

fromTime

starting time

toTime

ending time

rm.EU

is TRUE remove all variables (columns) starting with "EU" and "EA", that is averages for different groups of countries.

Details

Note that the downloaded datasets may have auxiliary columns to be later removed and they may contain missing values, thus before further calculation taking place, imputation or truncation of missing values must be performed. Extra columns include EU12 and other similar weighted averages.

Value

a list with as many components as indicators.

References

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/system/files/2022-04/introduction-to-the-convergeu-package-0.6.4-tutorial-v2-apr2022.pdf