read_SHeS_2016: Read Scottish Health Survey 2016

In dosgillespie/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Description

Reads and does basic cleaning on the Scottish Health Survey 2016.

Usage

read_SHeS_2016(
  root = c("X:/", "/Volumes/Shared/"),
 
    file = "ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2016/UKDA-8290-tab/tab/shes16i_archive_v1.tab"
)

Arguments

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

Details

The Scottish Health Survey is designed to yield a representative sample of the general population living in private households in Scotland every year.

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

Value

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 removed.

• 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

## Not run: 

data_2016 <- read_SHeS_2016("X:/", 
"ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2016/UKDA-8290-tab/tab/shes16i_archive_v1.tab")


## End(Not run)

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