getStatsData: Get statistical data from http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/

In i-kiwamu/Rjpstatdb: R interface of the Gateway to Advanced and User-friendly Statistics Service

Description

Get statistical data that you specify the data ID from “Gateway to Advanced and User-friendly Statistics Service” (http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/) organized by Japanese government.

Usage

getStatsData(statsDataId = NULL, dataSetId = NULL, limit = NULL,
             lvTab = "", cdTab = NULL, lvTime = "", cdTime = NULL,
             lvArea = "", cdArea = NULL)

Arguments

statsDataId	statistical data ID (character)
dataSetId	dataset ID you made (character)
limit	Maximum number of data to download
lvTab	Level of tables to download
cdTab	Code of tables to download (comma separated characters)
lvTime	Level of survey date to download
cdTime	Code of survey date to download (comma separated characters)
lvArea	Level of area to download
cdArea	Code of area to download (comma separated characters)

Details

Data includes some levels of tables, survey dates and areas. For example, data ID 0003009759 includes 1 table (the number of buildings), 1 survey date (year 2008) and 112 areas (prefectures and cities). Level 2 of area shows prefectures, level 3 shows the city parts of each prefecture, and level 4 shows the major cities (e.g. Sapporo, Yokohama, Nagoya, etc.). You can specify the level of table, time and area to download data. If you don't specify the level, all levels are included to data.

Value

It returns the “jpstat” object, which includes

ID	data ID
Stat name	statistics name of government
Government	goverment (ministry) that has the authority of data
Statistics name	provided statistics name
Title	title of data
Survey date	survey date
Tables	data body

Tables is a list that contains tables, and each table is data frame.

Author(s)

Kiwamu Ishikura <[e-mail]>

References

http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/system-info/api/api-spec/

Examples

getStatsList("Hokkaido AND population", surveyYears = 2008)
hpop20 <- getStatsData("0003009759")
head(hpop20@data[[1L]])

i-kiwamu/Rjpstatdb documentation built on May 17, 2019, 10:08 p.m.