rescale_outlook: Rescale outlook Eurobarometer questions

In antaldaniel/surveyreader: Data cleaning and integration for survey files

Description

Rescale the standard Eurobarometer outlook variable(s) with categories "Better", "The same", "Worse". The generic question is "What are your expectations for the next twelve months: will the next twelve months be better, worse or the same, when it comes to...?" This is a wrapper function around the rescale_categories function.

Usage

rescale_outlook(column, from = c("Better", "Same", "Worse"), to = c(1, 0,
  -1), na_labels = "default", exact_from = TRUE, return_class = "numeric",
  underscore = TRUE)

Arguments

column	A column from a survey data frame where gender is recorded.
from	Defaults to "Better", "The same", "Worse".
to	Defaults to c(1,0,-1). If return_class = "character" or return_class = "factor" is selected it returns the abbreviated category names c("better", "same", "worse".
na_labels	Defaults to c("default").
exact_from	Deafults to TRUE. If FALSE you can use the partial matching, but beware that in this case, "twenty" will be replaced by
return_class	Default is "numeric", alternatives "character" or "factor".
underscore	Defaults to TRUE in which case factor names or character strings contain underscore_between_words. This is a better approach for further programming, but you can choose FALSE for nicer printing results. See examples.

Examples

rescale_outlook (column =
                        c("DK",
                          "Better",
                          "Worse",
                          "worse",
                          "The same"),
                      underscore = FALSE,
                      return_class = "character")

 rescale_outlook (column =
                        c("DK",
                          "Better",
                          "Worse",
                          "worse",
                          "The same"),
                      return_class = "numeric")

antaldaniel/surveyreader documentation built on May 16, 2019, 2:29 a.m.