wpb_table: Download and parse World Prison Brief data

In prisonbrief: Downloads and Parses World Prison Brief Data

Description

Download and parse World Prison Brief data

Usage

wpb_table(
  region = c("Africa", "Asia", "Caribbean", "Central America", "Europe", "Middle East",
    "North America", "Oceania", "South America", "All"),
  country = NULL
)

Arguments

region	character. Return details for all the countries in the particular region. For a list of the countries in each region, use wbp_region_list().
country	character. If details of a specific country are required, the country can be specified by name. A non-NULL value for this parameter will void the region argument. For a list of country names, use wpb_list().

Value

Data Frame with 10 variables:

• country character.

• prison_population_rate integer, per 100,000 of the national population.

• prison_population_total integer.

• female_prisoners numeric, (percentage of total prison pop.).

• pre_trial_detainees numeric, (percentage of total prison pop.).

• foreign_prisoners numeric, (percentage of total prison pop.).

• occupancy_level numeric, (percentage based on official capacity).

• iso_a2 character. See notes.

• geometry sfc_MULTIPOLYGON.

Note

We recommend calling this function using the region argument, as the data come back in a format more useful for analysis. Querying a specific country will return a dataframe in which certain columns contain items such as parentheses and auxiliary text, rendering follow-on analysis more cumbersome. As regards the spatial information, the geometry column will be an empty list where it has not matched every entry in country. This is due to the way territories are coded according to ISO A2 codes. For example, country will contain "Jersey (United Kingdom)", whereas geometry contains information for only the United Kingdom as a whole. We hope to improve this in future releases of prisonBrief.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Get details for Spain:
espana <- wpb_table(country = "Spain")

# Get details for Central America:
CA <- wpb_table(region = "Central America")

## End(Not run)

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