read_SHeS_2018: Read Scottish Health Survey 2018
In dosgillespie/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/read_SHeS_2018.R

Reads and does basic cleaning on the Scottish Health Survey 2018.

read_SHeS_2018(
  root = c("X:/", "/Volumes/Shared/"),
 
    file = "ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2018/UKDA-8569-tab/tab/shes_18i_eul_v1.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. A sample of 11,801 addresses was drawn from the Postcode Address File (PAF) in 2018.

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 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.

## Not run: 

data_2018 <- read_SHeS_2018("X:/", 
"ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2018/UKDA-8569-tab/tab/shes_18i_eul_v1.tab")


## End(Not run)