validate_geo_code: Validate Conformity with NUTS Geo Codes (vector)
In regions: Processing Regional Statistics

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

Validate that geo is conforming with the NUTS1, NUTS2, or NUTS3 typologies. While country codes are technically not part of the NUTS typologies, Eurostat de facto uses a NUTS0 typology to identify countries. This de facto typology has three exception which are handled by the validate_nuts_countries function.

1	validate_geo_code(geo, nuts_year = 2016)

`geo`	A vector of geographical code to validate.
`nuts_year`	A valid NUTS edition year.

NUTS typologies have different versions, therefore the conformity is validated with one specific versions, which can be any of these: 1999, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2013, the currently used 2016 and the already announced and defined 2021.

The NUTS typology was codified with the NUTS2003, and the pre-1999 NUTS typologies may confuse programmatic data processing, given that some NUTS1 regions were identified with country codes in smaller countries that had no NUTS1 divisions.

Currently the 2016 is used by Eurostat, but many datasets still contain 2013 and sometimes earlier metadata.

A character list with the valid typology, or 'invalid' in the cases when the geo coding is not valid.

my_reg_data <- data.frame (
  geo = c("BE1", "HU102", "FR1",
          "DED", "FR7", "TR", "DED2",
          "EL", "XK", "GB"),
  values = runif(10))

validate_geo_code(my_reg_data$geo)