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 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 Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
verbose	A logical value. If TRUE displays 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 education institution.
site_name	The name of a specific site or branch of the education institution.
lat	Latitude (WGS 84).
lon	Longitude (WGS 84).
street	Street name.
house_number	House number.
postcode	Postcode.
address	Address information when the different components of the address are not separated in the source.
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	Measure of capacity by maximum number of students.
enrollment	Measure of capacity by 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. The dataset represents the state on this date.
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

A sf object.

Source

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

There are no specific download rules for the datasets shown below. However, please refer to the general copyright notice and license provisions, which apply to these datasets. Permission to download and use these data is subject to acceptance of those rules.

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

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)) {
  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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