edu_to_years: Turn education data to years

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

Turn education data to years

Description

Turn education data to years

Usage

edu_to_years(x, levels)

edu4_to_years(x)

edu9_to_years(x)

Arguments

x	character vector
levels	levels returned from the edu_levels() function

Details

Specialized returns

• edu_to_years - Alter education to years specifying number of levels

• edu4_to_years - directly alter 4-level coded education to years

• edu9_to_years - directly alter 9-level coded education to years

Value

vector of integers

See Also

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

Examples

edu4 <- c("3", "High school", "1", NA, 
          "University/University college (> 4 years)", 
           NA, "University/University college (< 4 years)")

edu_to_years(edu4, 4)
edu4_to_years(edu4)

edu9 <- c("7", "7", "8", NA, "Primary school (6 years)", "5", "9")
edu_to_years(edu9, 9)
edu9_to_years(edu9)

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