alc_drink_now_allages: Whether someone drinks and frequency of drinking

In dosgillespie/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Description

Clean the data on whether someone is a current drinker (drank in last 12 months) and if they did drink how frequently they did so.

Usage

alc_drink_now_allages(data)

Arguments

data	Data table - the Health Survey for England dataset.

Details

Combines information from adults and children. Someone is classed as a drinker even if they only reported drinking once or twice a year. Any missing data is supplemented by responses to if currently drinks or if always non-drinker.

Value

• drinks_now (drinker, non_drinker).

• drink_freq_7d (numerical variable calculated from categorical responses to how frequently someone drinks)

Examples

## Not run: 
data <- read_2017()
data <- clean_age(data)
data <- alc_drink_now_allages(data)

## End(Not run)

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