edu_group_sum {wcde}

Education group sums

Description

Cleans epop data, downloaded using the wcde() function, for summations of population by 4, 6 or 8 education groups.

Usage

edu_group_sum(
  d = NULL,
  n = 4,
  strip_totals = TRUE,
  factor_convert = TRUE,
  year_edu_start = 2020
)

Arguments

d

Data frame downloaded from the

n

Number of education groups (from 4, 6 or 8)

strip_totals

Remove total sums in epop column. Will not strip education totals if year < year_edu_start and n = 8 as past data on population size by 8 education groups is unavailable.

factor_convert

Convert columns that are character strings to factors, with levels based on order of appearance.

year_edu_start

Year in which education splits are available for given groupings - in some versions past data is not available for some education groupings. Set to 2020 by default.

Details

Strips the epop data set to relevant rows for the n education groups.

Value

A tibble with the data selected.

Examples

library(tidyverse)
past_epop %>%
  filter(year == 2020) %>%
  edu_group_sum()