gisco_get_education: Education services in Europe

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Education services in Europe

Description

This dataset is an integration of 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	character string or number. Release year of the file. One of 2023, 2020.
cache	logical. Whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
update_cache	logical. Should the cached file be refreshed?. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a new download.
cache_dir	character string. A path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
verbose	logical. If TRUE displays informational messages.
country	character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Details

Files are distributed EPSG:4326.

Brief description of each attribute:

Attribute	Description
id	The education service identifier. This identifier is based on national identification codes, if it exists.
name	The name of the education institution.
site_name	The name of the specific site or branch of an 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 (sometimes 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 (ISCED 2011).
max_students	Measure of capacity by maximum number of students.
enrollment	Measure of capacity by number of enrolled students.
fields	Academic disciplines the institution specializes in (ISCED-F 2013).
facility_type	Type of institution in reference to ownership and operation e.g. Catholic, International, etc.
public_private	The public or private status of the education service.
tel	Telephone number.
email	Email address.
url	URL link to the institution’s website.
ref_date	The reference date (DD/MM/YYYY) the data refers to. The dataset represents the reality as it was at this date.
geo_qual	Geolocation quality indicator: 1=Good, 2=Medium, 3=Low, 4=From source, -1=Unknown, -2=Not geocoded.
comments	Some 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 licence provisions, which must be complied with. Permission to download and use these data is subject to these rules being accepted.

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

See Also

Other basic services 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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