montagu_demographic_data: Download demographic data for a given touchstone.
In vimc/montagu-r: Interface with 'montagu'

Montagu provides standardised demographic data for the groups to use in their models. The source of the data is UNWPP, although various procedures are applied for convenience, including work on some smaller countries, people above the age of 80 in certain time periods, and extrapolating both cohorts backwards in time to their origins before 1950. Internal documents in the reporting portal describe the methods and motivations for these extensions.

1 2	montagu_demographic_data(type_code, touchstone_id, gender_code = NULL, wide = FALSE, source_code = NULL, location = NULL)

`type_code`	The demographic type code (something like `cbr` for `Fertility: Crude birth rate (CBR)`. Get the possible values from `montagu_demographics_list`
`touchstone_id`	Touchstone identifier
`gender_code`	One of "male", "female" or "both" (if omitted montagu will return "both"). Not applicable to all statistics.
`wide`	Logical, if `TRUE` returns data in wide format rather than long.
`source_code`	Optional source code, may be useful if one `type_code` can come from two sources within a touchstone.
`location`	The location of the montagu api server.

A data frame, giving the code and description for each demographic statistic, whether the data are stratified by gender, and a code indicating the source of the demographic data, which will change if there are future updates to any of the demographic data fields.

vimc/montagu-r documentation built on Oct. 10, 2019, 9:10 p.m.