details_mun_zone_local: Download data on the verification of local elections in...

In electionsBR: R Functions to Download and Clean Brazilian Electoral Data

Download data on the verification of local elections in Brazil

Description

details_mun_zone_local() downloads and aggregates the data on the verification of local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by electoral zone. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a town/zone.

Usage

details_mun_zone_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year	Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 are available.
uf	Federation Unit acronym (character vector).
encoding	Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.
temp	(logical). elections_rda

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Value

details_mun_zone_local() returns a data.frame with the following variables:

Note

For the elections prior to 2000, some information can be incomplete.

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- details_mun_zone_local(2000)

## End(Not run)

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