load_worldpop_age: Function to get population data from a worldpop geotiff and...

In HopkinsIDD/globaltoolboxlite: Identify Location Names and Link with Other Data, lite version

Function to get population data from a worldpop geotiff and geounit shapefile This function extracts raster values for overlayed polygons

Description

Function to get population data from a worldpop geotiff and geounit shapefile This function extracts raster values for overlayed polygons

Usage

load_worldpop_age(
  shp,
  country = "BGD",
  year = "2020",
  save_dir = "raw_data",
  cores = 4,
  loc_var = "NAME_2",
  shp_vars = c("GID_0", "NAME_0", "GID_1", "NAME_1", "GID_2", "NAME_2"),
  add_pop_to_shapefile = TRUE,
  shp_country_var = "GID_0"
)

Arguments

shp	Shapefile file path for shapefile of geounits (i.e., admin2)
country	ISO3 of country of interest
year	Year of population data (2000 to 2020)
save_dir	directory where to save geotiff files
cores	number of cores to parallelize over
loc_var	name of location name or id variable, if want to reduce data to this and population data
add_pop_to_shapefile	logical, whether to add total population to the shapefile
shp_country_var	Variable in the shapefile denoting the country ISO3 code. For GADM shapefiles, this is GID_0. If NULL, no subsetting done

Value

long age population data by admin level 2

References

WorldPop (https://www.worldpop.org/geodata)

HopkinsIDD/globaltoolboxlite documentation built on Jan. 12, 2024, 5:49 a.m.