edu_compile: Compile education across sources

In LCBC-UiO/Questionnaires: Package with functions to calculate components and sums for LCBC questionnaires

Compile education across sources

Description

Compiles education from participant, mother or father depending on source availability. Made for ease of testing and reporting education SES of family

Usage

edu_compile(data, participant, mother, father)

Arguments

data	MOAS-like data.frame
participant	unquoted column of 4 category education for participant
mother	unquoted column of 4 category education for participant's mother
father	unquoted column of 4 category education for participant's father

Value

dataframe with three new columns

See Also

Other edu_functions: edu_compute(), edu_factorise(), edu_levels2name(), edu_levels(), edu_reduce(), edu_to_years()

Examples

edu <- data.frame(
    edu4 = c("3", "High school", 1, NA,
         "University/University college (> 4 years)", NA, 
          "University/University college (< 4 years)"),
    edu9 = c(7,7,8,NA,"Primary school (6 years)",5, 9),
    edu_years = c(NA, 12, 9, NA, 19, 19, NA),
    mother = c("3", "High school", 1, NA,
               "University/University college (> 4 years)",
               "University/University college (> 4 years)", 
               "University/University college (< 4 years)"),
    father = c(7,7,8,4,"Primary school (6 years)",5, 10),
    stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
 
 library(dplyr)
 edu %>% 
     mutate(
        mother = ifelse(mother == "3", NA, mother),
        mother = edu4_factorise(mother),
        father = edu9_reduce(edu9_factorise(father))
     ) %>% 
     edu_compile(
        participant = edu4,
        mother = mother,
        father = father
        )

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