gisco_get_education: Education services in Europe

In giscoR: Download 'Eurostat' 'GISCO' Spatial Data

Education services in Europe

Description

This dataset integrates Member States' official data on the location of education services. Additional information on these services is included when available. See Details.

Usage

gisco_get_education(
  year = c(2023, 2020),
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL
)

Arguments

year	A character string or numeric value with the release year of the file. One of 2023, 2020.
cache	A logical value indicating whether to cache results. Defaults to TRUE. See the Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
update_cache	A logical value indicating whether to refresh the cached file. Defaults to FALSE. When set to TRUE, it forces a new download.
cache_dir	A character string with a path to a cache directory. See the Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
verbose	A logical value indicating whether to display informational messages.
country	A character vector of country codes. It can be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Details

Files are distributed in EPSG:4326.

The following table describes the education service attributes:

Attribute	Description
id	The education service identifier, based on national identification codes when available.
name	The name of the educational institution.
site_name	The name of a specific site or branch of the educational institution.
lat	Latitude (WGS 84).
lon	Longitude (WGS 84).
street	Street name.
house_number	House number.
postcode	Postcode.
address	Address information when the source does not separate address components.
city	City name. In some sources, this refers to a region or municipality.
cntr_id	Country code (2 letters, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
levels	Education levels represented by a single integer or range, using ISCED 2011.
max_students	Maximum student capacity.
enrollment	Number of enrolled students.
fields	Academic disciplines in which the institution specializes, using ISCED-F 2013.
facility_type	Type of institution by ownership and operation, such as Catholic or international.
public_private	Public or private status of the education service.
tel	Telephone number.
email	Email address.
url	URL for the institution's website.
ref_date	The reference date (DD/MM/YYYY) for the data.
pub_date	The publication date of the dataset by Eurostat (DD/MM/YYYY).
geo_qual	Geolocation quality indicator: 1 = Good, 2 = Medium, 3 = Low, 4 = From source, -1 = Unknown, -2 = Not geocoded.
comments	Additional information on the education service.

Value

An sf object.

Copyright

The general Eurostat copyright and license provisions apply. Detailed metadata also list source-specific licensing conditions by country and data provider. Review the conditions for the selected data before use.

Data quality

The data are extracted from official national registers. They may contain inconsistencies, inaccuracies and gaps due to the heterogeneity of the national input data.

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/basic-services.

See Also

Basic service datasets: gisco_get_healthcare()

Examples

edu_austria <- gisco_get_education(country = "Austria", year = 2023)

# Plot if downloaded.
if (!is.null(edu_austria) && requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) {
  austria_nuts3 <- gisco_get_nuts(country = "Austria", nuts_level = 3)

  library(ggplot2)
  ggplot(austria_nuts3) +
    geom_sf(fill = "grey10", color = "grey60") +
    geom_sf(
      data = edu_austria, aes(color = rev(public_private)),
      alpha = 0.25
    ) +
    theme_void() +
    theme(
      plot.background = element_rect(fill = "black"),
      text = element_text(color = "white"),
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", hjust = 0.5),
      plot.subtitle = element_text(face = "italic", hjust = 0.5)
    ) +
    labs(
      title = "Education", subtitle = "Austria (2023)",
      caption = "Source: Eurostat, Education 2023 dataset.",
      color = "Type"
    ) +
    coord_sf(crs = 3035)
}

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