categories_for_level: Use metadata to extract categories for column of specific...

In cansim: Accessing Statistics Canada Data Table and Vectors

Use metadata to extract categories for column of specific level

Description

For tables with data with hierarchical categories, metadata containing hierarchy level descriptions is used to extract categories at a specified level of hierarchy only.

Usage

categories_for_level(
  data,
  column_name,
  level = NA,
  strict = FALSE,
  remove_duplicates = TRUE
)

Arguments

data	data table object as returned from get_cansim()
column_name	the quoted name of the column to extract categories from
level	the hierarchy level depth to which to extract categories, where 0 is top category
strict	(default FALSE) when TRUE will only extract that specific hierarchy level
remove_duplicates	(default TRUE) When set to TRUE higher level grouping categories already captured by lower level hierarchy data will be removed

Value

A vector of categories

Examples

## Not run: 
data <- get_cansim("16-10-0117")
categories_for_level(data,"North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)",level=2)

## End(Not run)

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