appendSectors: Append sector membership to APS data extract

In ukgovdatascience/eesectors: Functions to create DCMS Economic Estimates statistics

Description

This function appends DCMS sector membership to an APS SPSS-extracted data frame.

Usage

appendSectors(x, sectors = eesectors::DCMS_sectors)

Arguments

x	a 'data.frame' as extracted by eesectors::extract_APS_data
sectors	a 'data.frame' as extracted by eesectors::extract_DCMS_sectors. This defaults to the 'DCMS_sectors' object which is the 'extract_DCMS_sectors' function applied to the 2016 data.

Details

The function eesectors::extract_APS_data extracts APS data from an APS SPSS file. This function appends DCMS sector membership to an APS SPSS-extracted data frame before further analysis, on a first job and second job basis

1. The function converts the character vector DCMS_sectors$SIC to double

2. The function loops through the sectors found in DCMS_sectors, and uses DCMS_sectors as a lookup for membership of each person's main and second job in each sector

3. The function adds membership in the form of two variables per sector

4. The dataframe with +2*n_sectors variables is returned

Value

The function returns the APS data as a dataframe with the sector membership variables appended

Examples

## Not run: 
library(eesectors)
APS_data_sectors=appendSectors(
x = APS_data
)

## End(Not run)

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