R/build_demographics_race_1960.R

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

#' Builds a synthetic variable for age - 1960
#' @param data.frame
#' @value data.frame
#' @export

build_demographics_race_1960 <- function(CensusData){ 
        
        if(!is.data.frame(CensusData)){
                stop("'CensusData' is not a data.frame") 
        }
        
        check_vars <- check_var_existence(CensusData, c("v206"))
        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)
        }
        
        CensusData[ v206 %in% c(4, 6),    race := 1]
        CensusData[ v206 %in% c(7, 8),    race := 2]
        CensusData[ v206 %in% c(5),       race := 3]
        gc()
        
        CensusData
}