get_primary_production: Primary items production

In whep: Processing Agro-Environmental Data

Primary items production

Description

Get amount of crops, livestock and livestock products.

Usage

get_primary_production(version = NULL)

Arguments

version

File version to use as input. See whep_inputs for details.

Value

A tibble with the item production data. It contains the following columns:

• year: The year in which the recorded event occurred.

• area_code: The code of the country where the data is from. For code details see e.g. add_area_name().

• item_prod_code: FAOSTAT internal code for each produced item.

• item_cbs_code: FAOSTAT internal code for each commodity balance sheet item. The commodity balance sheet contains an aggregated version of production items. This field is the code for the corresponding aggregated item.

• live_anim_code: Commodity balance sheet code for the type of livestock that produces the livestock product. It can be:

  • NA: The entry is not a livestock product.

  • Non-NA: The code for the livestock type. The name can also be retrieved by using add_item_cbs_name().

• unit: Measurement unit for the data. Here, keep in mind three groups of items: crops (e.g. ⁠Apples and products⁠, Beans...), livestock (e.g. ⁠Cattle, dairy⁠, Goats...) and livestock products (e.g. ⁠Poultry Meat⁠, ⁠Offals, Edible⁠...). Then the unit can be one of:

  • tonnes: Available for crops and livestock products.

  • ha: Hectares, available for crops.

  • t_ha: Tonnes per hectare, available for crops.

  • heads: Number of animals, available for livestock.

  • LU: Standard Livestock Unit measure, available for livestock.

  • t_head: tonnes per head, available for livestock products.

  • t_LU: tonnes per Livestock Unit, available for livestock products.

• value: The amount of item produced, measured in unit.

Examples

# Note: These are smaller samples to show outputs, not the real data.
# For all data, call the function with default version (i.e. no arguments).
get_primary_production(version = "example")

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