allocate_electorate: Determine which electoral division contains the centroid from...

In eechidna: Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia

Description

Using the electoral boundaries at the time of an election and the centroids from the SA1 polygons from a neighbouring Census, allocate each SA1 to the electoral division that contains its centroid.

Usage

allocate_electorate(
  centroids_ls,
  electorates_sf,
  census_year = NA,
  election_year = NA
)

Arguments

centroids_ls	list containing centroids as SpatialPoints and a dataframe with basic data on each polygon (e.g. name)
electorates_sf	shapefile with electoral boundaries
census_year	census year
election_year	election year

Value

data frame detailing which electoral division each Census polygon is allocated to

Examples

## Not run: 
# Mapping each SA1 from the 2011 Census to the 2013 electoral boundaries
mapping_c11_e13 <- allocate_electorate(centroids_ls = centroids_sa1_2011, electorates_sf = sF_13, 
census_year = "2011", election_year = "2013")

## End(Not run)

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