R/tax_2020.R

In UBC-MDS/taxyvr: Data from The city of Vancouver's Open Data Portal on Vancouver property tax assessment

#' VancouverProperty Tax Assessment data
#' This is data that the city of Vancouver has collected on the properties in Vancouver for assessment year 2020.
#'
#' @source <https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/property-tax-report/information/>, downloaded 2020-03-27chec
#' @format A data frame with columns:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{pid}{Property identifier, assigned by Land Title Survey Authority, sourced from BC Assessment records.}
#'  \item{legal_type}{Values are 'STRATA', indicating property is part of a Strata Plan, 'LAND' indicating property has a non-strata plan number, or 'OTHER' for properties with no plan number.}
#'  \item{folio}{A 12-digit identifier for purposes of assessment. Assigned by BC Assessment.}
#'  \item{land_coordinate}{First 8 digits of BC Assessment's folio number}
#'  \item{zone_name}{Name of zoning district. Each zoning districts has a corresponding district schedule in the Zoning and Development By-law.}
#'  \item{zone_category}{Name of zoning category.}
#'  \item{block}{Component of legal description which is assigned by Land Title Survey Authority,.}
#'  \item{plan}{Component of legal description which is assigned by Land Title Survey Authority.}
#'  \item{district_lot}{Component of legal description which is assigned by Land Title Survey Authority.}
#'  \item{lot}{Component of legal description which is assigned by Land Title Survey Authority.}
#'  \item{from_civic_number}{This is the house number, it may be the first number in a range.}
#'  \item{to_civic_number}{Blank unless it is the last house number in a range.}
#'  \item{street_name}{The name of the street where the property is located.}
#'  \item{property_postal_code}{A series of letters and/or digits that is attached to a property address.}
#'  \item{narrative_legal_line1}{Describes a property for registration purposes, assigned by Land Title Survey Authority}
#'  \item{narrative_legal_line2}{Describes a property for registration purposes, assigned by Land Title Survey Authority}
#'  \item{narrative_legal_line3}{Describes a property for registration purposes,  assigned by Land Title Survey Authority}
#'  \item{narrative_legal_line4}{Describes a property for registration purposes, assigned by Land Title Survey Authority}
#'  \item{narrative_legal_line5}{Describes a property for registration purposes, assigned by Land Title Survey Authority}
#'  \item{current_land_value}{The market value of the fee simple interest in land and improvements. This is the actual value; it differs from taxable value which is net of exemptions and which may also be averaged.}
#'  \item{current_improvement_value}{The market value of the fee simple interest in land and improvements. This is the actual value; it differs from taxable value which is net of exemptions and which may also be averaged.}
#'  \item{tax_assessment_year}{Year in effect for Current_Land_Value, Current_Improvement_Value and Tax_Levy}
#'  \item{previous_improvement_value}{This value is for the previous assessment year.}
#'  \item{previous_land_value}{This value is for the previous assessment year. }
#'  \item{year_built}{Year that the property was built. }
#'  \item{big_improvement_year}{Year of major improvement to the property}
#'  \item{tax_levy}{This is the total taxes printed on the most recent tax notice.  It includes the City's general levy,levies for all taxing authorities, utilities, local improvements and miscellaneous charges}
#'  \item{neighbourhood_code}{This is a 3-digit number assigned by BCA which identifies the neighbourhood for the folio.}
#'  \item{report_year}{report_year}
#'  \item{geo_local_area}{The local area where the feature is found, derived from the feature's coordinates or address in the source system. The City has 22 local areas (also known as local planning areas)}
#'  \item{longitude}{Longitude coordinate}
#'  \item{latitude}{Latitude coordinate}
#' }
#' @examples
#' tax_2020
#'
#' head(tax_2020)
#' summary(tax_2020)

"tax_2020"