get_employment_within: Get Employment Within Boundary

In Chrisjb/RDistanceMatrix: Useful Functions For Building Isochrones And Related Analysis

Description

Fetches the employment within a given boundary. The boundary is given as an sf file and intersected with LSOAs. The employment data is fetched from NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) data.

Usage

get_employment_within(
  boundary,
  year = "latest",
  type = "employment",
  split = FALSE,
  industry = "all",
  api_key = Sys.getenv("nomis_api_key")
)

Arguments

boundary	an sf polygon in England or Wales.
year	the year for which to return employment data
type	'employment' or 'employees'
split	If split is set to TRUE and type is set to 'employees', the employment will be separated into part time and full time workers
industry	'all' for no industry breakdown. 'broad' for broad sections, 'sections' for sections, or '2digit' for two digit SIC codes.
api_key	can be specified manually here, or set using 'set_nomis_api' function.

Value

a tibble containing employment data

Examples

iso <- make_isochrone(site = 'SE1 9SG', time = 30, method = 'mapbox', mode = 'driving')
emp <- get_employment_within(iso, 'latest', industry = 'all')
# total employment within isochrone:
emp %>%
 dplyr::summarise(total_emp = sum(employment_within))

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