ob: The Obesity Data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing the obesity dataset for the years 1960-2019. The original dataset has been joined with World Bank indicator data. Data are partitioned into mutually exclusive strata (rows) so that they may be aggregated according to user needs.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 23,138 rows and 18 variables:

country

The country name.

year

The year of stratum.

sex

The sex of individuals in the stratum.

iso2c

The ISO 2-letter country code.

iso3c

The ISO 3-letter country code.

region

The geographic region of the country.

capital

The capital city of the country.

longitude

The longitude of the capital city.

latitude

The latitude of the capital city.

income

The name of the country income group.

lending

The name of the IMF country lending category.

lifexp

The country life expectancy for the stratum.

literacy

The number of literate individuals for the stratum (row)

pop

The population count of the stratum (row).

primedu

The number of individuals in the stratum (row) who have completed basic primary education

smoke

The number of individuals in the stratum (row) who smoke.

unemployed

The number of individuals in the stratum (row) who are unemployed.

obese

The number of individuals in the stratum (row) who are obese.

none

A placeholder column with level "All" for dashboarding purposes only.

flag_smoke

A dichotomous variable indicating whether the smoking data is observed or imputed (missing).

youthpop

The count of youth in the stratum (row).

Source

WHO Obesity Data

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/prevalence-of-obesity-among-adults-bmi-=-30-(age-standardized-estimate)-(-)

World Bank Indicators

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator


UBC-MDS/obesity-explorer-R documentation built on Feb. 7, 2021, 4:37 a.m.