R/ons_mortality.R

In NHSRdatasets: NHS and Healthcare-Related Data for Education and Training

#' Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional
#'
#' Provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, by age, sex and region, in the latest weeks for which data are available.
#'
#' Source and licence acknowledgement
#' This data has been made available through Office of National Statistics under the Open Government
#' Licence \url{http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/}
#'
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @keywords datasets mortality deaths England Wales Provisional
#'
#' @format Data frame with five columns
#' \describe{
#' \item{category_1}{character, containing the names of the groups for counts, e.g. "Total deaths", "all ages".}
#' \item{category_2}{character, subcategory of names of groups where necessary, e.g. details of region: "East", details of age bands "15-44".}
#' \item{counts}{numeric, numbers of deaths in whole numbers and average numbers with decimal points. To retain the integrity of the format this column data is left as character.}
#' \item{date}{date, format is yyyy-mm-dd; all dates are a Friday.}
#' \item{week_no}{integer, each week in a year is numbered sequentially.}
#' }
#'
#' @source Collected by Zoë Turner \email{zoe.turner2@nottshc.nhs.uk}, Apr-2020 from \url{https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales}
#'
#' @usage data(ons_mortality)
#'
#' @examples
#' data(ons_mortality)
#'
#'library(dplyr)
#'library(tidyr)
#'
#'wideForm <- ons_mortality %>%
#'  select(-week_no) %>%
#'  pivot_wider(names_from = date,
#'              values_from = counts
#'  )
#'
"ons_mortality"