R/tex_itop.R

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#' 2016-2021 Statistics on Induced Terminations of Pregnancy (ITOP) in Texas
#'
#' Texas abortion counts and rates by race/ethnicity and county of residence
#' from 2016 to 2021 from the Texas Department of State Health Services
#' (up to June 2018) and the Health and Human Services Commission since then.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 1,524 rows and 18 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{county}{County of residence in Texas}
#'   \item{total_itop}{Total number of abortions}
#'   \item{asian_itop}{Total number of abortions among Asian women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{hispanic_itop}{Total number of abortions among Hispanic women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{white_itop}{Total number of abortions among White women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{black_itop}{Total number of abortions among Black women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{native_american_itop}{Total number of abortions among Native American
#'   women between the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{other_itop}{Total number of abortions among women of other races or
#'   ethnicities between the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{year}{year}
#'   \item{urban}{Indicator for whether the county is 'rural' or 'urban'
#'   according to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs}
#'   \item{total_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{asian_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 Asian women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{hispanic_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 Hispanic women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{white_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 White women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{black_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 Black women between
#'   the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{native_american_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 Native American
#'   women between the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{other_rate}{Abortion rate per 1000 women of other races or
#'   ethnicities between the ages of 15 and 44}
#'   \item{county_type}{Indicator for whether the county is urban, suburban, or
#'   rural according to the RUCC (rural-urban continuum codes) from the U.S.
#'   Department of Agriculture in 2013. Counties with Rural-Urban Continuum
#'   codes of 1-3 were categorized as urban, counties with codes of 4-7 were
#'   categorized as suburban, and counties with codes of 8 or 9 were categorized
#'   as rural.}
#' }
#'
#' Note from the data website: for the year 2020, "Data do not include 82
#' reports submitted after statutory deadlines and that were not available when
#' annual data were compiled."
#'
#' @source Abortion counts by county and race/ethnicity were obtained from
#' Texas Health and Human Services ISTOP Statistics at the following link:
#'
#' \url{https://www.hhs.texas.gov/about/records-statistics/data-statistics/itop-statistics}
#'
#' To calculate abortion rates, total female populations between the ages of 15
#' and 44 were retrieved using the tidycensus package in R:
#'
#' \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidycensus}
#'
#' Census codes for females between the ages of 15 and 44 by each race/ethnicity
#' were retrieved from the following website:
#'
#' \url{https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/dhc/variables.html}.
#'
#' Information on whether counties are categorized as rural or urban was
#' obtained from the 2022 Index of Texas Counties from the Texas Department of
#' Housing and Community Affairs.
#'
#' The 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
#' were obtained from the following site:
#'
#'\url{https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-continuum-codes/}
#'
"tex_itop"