calc_religious_attendance: Calculate Religious Attendance Frequency

In AOUSDOHtools: Analyzing AOU SDOH Survey Data

Calculate Religious Attendance Frequency

Description

This function creates an ordinal categorical variable indicating the frequency of attending religious meetings or services, based on participant responses.

Usage

calc_religious_attendance(survey_df)

Arguments

survey_df

A data frame containing survey data with at least three columns: 'person_id', 'question_concept_id', and 'answer'.

Value

A data frame with two columns: 'person_id' and 'religious_attendance', where 'religious_attendance' indicates how often the participant attends religious meetings or services. Participants without data or who skipped the question will have NA values.

Examples

# Create a sample survey data frame
survey_df <- data.frame(
  person_id = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
  question_concept_id = rep(40192470, 5),
  answer = c("Never", "Once a week", "More than once a week", "Never", "Skip")
)

# Compute religious attendance frequency
religious_attendance_scores <- calc_religious_attendance(survey_df)
head(religious_attendance_scores)

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