In muschellij2/dhs: API for the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Data

DHS API in R

This package parses most of the output from the DHS API. Overall, these are helper functions to load in data about indicators and codebooks for the DHS data sets.

Installation

In R:

if (!("devtools" %in% installed.packages)){
    install.packages("devtools")
}
devtools::install_github("muschellij2/dhs")

After installation, you can load the library and get the list of countries/surveys from DHS:

library(dhs)
head(dhs_countries())
head(dhs_surveys())

muschellij2/dhs documentation built on May 23, 2019, 8:34 a.m.