voter_profile_by_section: Download data on the voters' profile by vote section

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

Download data on the voters' profile by vote section

Description

voter_profile_by_section() downloads and cleans data on the voters' profile aggregated by voting section (i.e., voting stations). The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a voter profile type.

Usage

voter_profile_by_section(
  year,
  uf = "AC",
  encoding = "windows-1252",
  temp = TRUE,
  readme_pdf = FALSE
)

Arguments

year	Election year (integer). For this function, the following years are available: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020.
uf	Federation Unit acronym (character vector). Defaults to 'AC' (Acre).
encoding	Data original encoding (defaults to 'windows-1252'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.
temp	(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)
readme_pdf	original readme

Details

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

Value

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

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- voter_profile_by_section(2016)

## End(Not run)

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