get_cces_question: Get one column of outcome questions for each model

In kuriwaki/ccesMRPprep: Functions and Data to Prepare CCES data for MRP

Get one column of outcome questions for each model

Description

Get one column of outcome questions for each model

Usage

get_cces_question(
  qcode,
  year,
  qID,
  dataframe = NULL,
  y_named_as = "response",
  data_dir = "data/input/cces",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

qcode	A string, the variable name of the outcome variable of interest, exactly as it appears in the CCES dataset. Together with year, uniquely identifies the outcome question data
year	A string for the year the question was asked, which defines the the dataset. If using a dataset from the cumulative, set to "cumulative". Together with qcode, uniquely identifies the outcome question data
qID	A string, the user's unique name for the question. For example, we use the syntax in our question table.
dataframe	An optional argument to pass the entire CCES dataframe in-environment. If left empty, this will supersede the arguments year and dataframe and use the provided datasets instead.
y_named_as	What to name the response variable. Defaults to "response", which is also the default assumption for cces_join_slim.
data_dir	A path for the directory where flat files for the CCES common content is stored. Currently the data must be of the form ⁠cces_{year}.rds⁠ (e.g. "cces_2016.rds") and it must exist wherever data_dir is. We recommend looping over get_cces_dataverse to download data first.
verbose	whether to print a message; defaults to TRUE

Details

This transformation currently only supports Yes/No questions. For some common ordinal questions that can, with manual recodes, be set to a Yes/No question, there is some hard-coding of the recode in the question. In the future, this should be defined outside of the function in a taxonomy.

Value

A three-column dataframe with the columns

year

The year

case_id

The respondent identifier within year

qID

The question ID

response

The outcome question, of class factor

The object will also have an attribute called question, which will save the question identifier qID

Examples

 # with sample data
 get_cces_question("pid3", dataframe = cc18_samp, year = 2018, qID = "pid3")

 # need data/input/cces/cces_2018.rds to run this
 ## Not run: 
  get_cces_question(qcode = "CC18_326", year = "2018", qID = "TCJA")

  # A tibble: 60,000 x 4
  # year   case_id qID   response
  # <int>     <int> <chr> <fct>
  # 1  2018 123464282 TCJA  Support
  # 2  2018 170169205 TCJA  Support
  # 3  2018 175996005 TCJA  Support
  # 4  2018 176818556 TCJA  Oppose
  # 5  2018 202120533 TCJA  Oppose
  # 6  2018 226449148 TCJA  Oppose
  # 7  2018 238205342 TCJA  Oppose
  # 8  2018 238806466 TCJA  Support
  # 9  2018 267564481 TCJA  Support
  # … with 59,991 more rows
 
## End(Not run)

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