read_2001: Read HSE 2001

In dosgillespie/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Description

Reads and does basic cleaning on the Health Survey for England 2001.

Usage

read_2001(
  root = c("X:/", "/Volumes/Shared/"),
  file = "ScHARR/PR_Consumption_TA/HSE/HSE 2001/UKDA-4628-tab/tab/hse01ai.tab"
)

Arguments

root	Character - the root directory.
file	Character - the file path and name.

Details

A sample of the population living in private households. All persons living in the house, including those under 2 years were eligible for inclusion. At addresses where there were more than two children under 16, two children were selected at random. Information was obtained directly from persons aged 13 and over. Information about children aged 0-12 was obtained from a parent, with the child present.

WEIGHTING

There is no weighted variable for household adult data. For children under 16, the weighted variable Child_Wt should be used.

MISSING VALUES

• -1 Not applicable: Used to signify that a particular variable did not apply to a given respondent usually because of internal routing. For example, men in women only questions.

• -2 Schedule not applicable: Used mainly for variables on the self-completions when the respondent was not of the given age range, also used for children without legal guardians in the home who could not participate in the nurse schedule.

• -6 Schedule not obtained: Used to signify that a particular variable was not answered because the respondent did not complete or agree to a particular schedule (i.e. nurse schedule or selfcompletions).

• -7 Refused/ not obtained: Used only for variables on the nurse schedules, this code indicates that a respondent refused a particular measurement or test or the measurement was attempted but not obtained or not attempted.

• -8 Don't know, Can't say.

• -9 No answer/ Refused

Value

Returns a data table. Note that:

• Missing data ("NA", "", "-1", "-2", "-6", "-7", "-9", "-90", "-90.0", "N/A") is replace with NA, except -8 ("don't know") as this is data.

• All variable names are converted to lower case.

• Each data point is assigned a weight of 1 as there is no weight variable supplied.

• A single sampling cluster is assigned.

• The probabilistic sampling unit have the year appended to them.

Examples

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data_2001 <- read_2001("X:/", "ScHARR/PR_Consumption_TA/HSE/HSE 2001/UKDA-4628-tab/tab/hse01ai.tab")


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