R/build_demographics_age_1980.R

In antrologos/harmonizeIBGE: harmonizeIBGE - harmonized variables for Brazilian Censuses (1960-2010)

#' Builds a synthetic variable for age - 1980
#' @param data.frame
#' @value data.frame
#' @export

build_demographics_age_1980 <- function(CensusData){

        if(!is.data.frame(CensusData)){
                stop("'CensusData' is not a data.frame")
        }

        check_vars <- check_var_existence(CensusData, c("v606"))
        if(length(check_vars) > 0){
                stop("The following variables are missing from the data: ",
                     paste(check_vars, collapse = ", "))
        }

        if(!is.data.table(CensusData)){
                CensusData = as.data.table(CensusData)
        }

        #age
        CensusData[ , age := v606]
        CensusData[v606 == 999 , age := NA]
        
        gc();Sys.sleep(.5);gc()
        CensusData

}