read_cbs_muni: Read a municipal data file to a tibble

In il.cbs.muni: Utility Functions to Work with Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics Municipal Data

Read a municipal data file to a tibble

Description

This function is a wrapper around readxl::read_excel(), reading a specific municipal data file for a specific year and a specific data domain. Its added value is in its use of row_to_names_fill() and its pre-defined parameters for every year and its specific quirks in the Excel headers. For advanced users, the full set of options is available with il.cbs.muni:::df_cbs_muni_params.

Usage

read_cbs_muni(
  path,
  year,
  muni_type = c("all", "city_lc", "rc"),
  data_domain = c("physical", "budget", "summary", "labor_force_survey", "social_survey"),
  cols = NULL,
  col_names = NULL
)

Arguments

path	A character vector of length 1, denoting the local file path to the municipal data file. A full list of available files by the CBS is at the relevant CBS page.
year	A numeric vector of length 1 denoting which year the data file pointed in path is for. Currently supporting only 2003 and later, since before 2003 the data structure is very different.
muni_type	A character vector of length 1, one of c("all", "city_lc", "rc"). Since 2016, all municipal types are bundled together in the same sheets, but before 2016 there are different sheets for cities and local councils ("city_lc") and regional councils ("rc"). This parameter chooses which sheet you would read.
data_domain	A character vector of length 1, one of c("physical", "budget", "summary", "labor_force_survey", "social_survey"). Every Excel municipal data file has a few different data domains, most notably physical and population data, and budget data.
cols	<tidy-select> Columns to keep. The default NULL keeps all columns.
col_names	A character vector containing the new column names of the output tibble. If NULL then the tibble uses the original column names. Must be the same length as the number of columns picked in cols.

Value

A tibble with municipal data for a specific year, where every row is a municipality and every column is a different variable for this municipality in that year. Be advised all columns are of type character, so you need to parse the data types yourself at will. Column names are merged from the relevant headers, and only single whitespaces are kept. Rows with more than 90% empty cells (usually rows with non-data notes) are removed.

Examples

df <- read_cbs_muni(
  system.file("extdata", "p_libud_2021.xlsx", package = "il.cbs.muni"),
  year = 2021,
  data_domain = "physical"
)

df |>
  dplyr::select(1:15) |>
  dplyr::glimpse()

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