fig_poppyramid {whomds}

Print a population pyramid

Description

Print a population pyramid

Usage

fig_poppyramid(
  df,
  var_age,
  var_sex,
  x_axis = c("n", "pct"),
  age_plus = 100,
  age_by = 5
)

Arguments

df

a data frame of individual survey data, where each row is an individual

var_age

a string (length 1) of the name of the age column

var_sex

a string (length 1) of the name of the sex column

x_axis

a string (length 1) indicating whether to use absolute numbers or sample percentage on the x-axis. Choices are "n" (default) or "pct".

age_plus

a numeric value (length 1) indicating the age that is the first value of the oldest age group. Default is 100, for the last age group to be 100+

age_by

a numeric value (length 1) indicating the width of each age group, in years. Default is 5.

Details

A population pyramid gives an image of the age and sex distribution of a population.

The function divides the var_age variable into intervals of width age_by.

Value

A population pyramid figure

See Also

Other figure functions: fig_LID(), fig_density(), fig_dist()

Examples

fig_poppyramid(df_adults, "age", "sex")