edu_reduce: Reduce education categories

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

Reduce education categories

Description

These functions will aid in converting one education scheme into another. While you may attempt to go from a low level to a high (from 4 to 9), there is no way to actually do that in a consistent way that will correctly reflect the underlying data.

Usage

edu_reduce(x, from, to)

edu9_reduce(x, to = 4)

Arguments

x	character vector
from	factor level to transform from
to	factor level to transform to

Details

Always go from a higher level scheme to a lower one (currently from 9 to 4 only)

Specialized returns

• edu_reduce - reduce with own to and from specification

• edu9_reduce - directly reduce from 9 to 4

Value

factor

See Also

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

Examples

edu9 <- c("7", "7", "8", NA, "Primary school (6 years)", "5", "9")
edu_reduce(edu9, 9, 4)
edu9_reduce(edu9)

LCBC-UiO/Questionnaires documentation built on July 18, 2023, 6:45 p.m.