read_SHeS_2009: Read Scottish Health Survey 2009
In dosgillespie/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/read_SHeS_2009.R

Reads and does basic cleaning on the Scottish Health Survey 2009.

read_SHeS_2009(
  root = c("X:/", "/Volumes/Shared/"),
 
    file = "ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2009/UKDA-6713-tab/tab/shes09i_v5.tab"
)

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

The Scottish Health Survey is designed to yield a representative sample of the general population living in private households in Scotland every year. An initial sample of 12,668 addresses were selected, comprising of

7,588 formed the main sample,
4,312 addresses formed an additional child booster sample,
768 addresses formed the Health Board boost.

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).
-8 Don't know, Can't say.
-9 No answer/ Refused

Returns a data table. Note that:

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

## Not run: 

data_2009 <- read_SHeS_2009("X:/", 
"ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2009/UKDA-6713-tab/tab/shes09i_v5.tab")


## End(Not run)