append_poverty_data: Appends Poverty Data to main Data file

In gmellon/neaR: A package providing data processing functions for arts administrative data

Description

This function makes it easy to append 2011-2015 poverty rate data from the 5 year ACS to another dataset. To use, just create a new column in the original data to store the poverty rate data, and identify which column in the original data has the census tract ID variables. The function will do the rest.

Usage

append_poverty_data(ID_var, pov_column)

Arguments

ID_var	column in data frame with CT ids, i.e. NEA$CT_GEOID
pov_column	the name of the column in the dataset to append poverty data to

Value

A vector of poverty data, in the same order as original dataset

Examples

NEA$poverty_rate<-NA
NEA$poverty_rate<-append_poverty_data(NEA$CT_GEOID, NEA$poverty_rate)

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