Build country population — process_ctry_pop

Cleans the country level population data from the POLIS API and fill in gaps in population counts using the application of growth rates.

Usage

process_ctry_pop_data(
  pop_data,
  pop_dir = "GID/PEB/SIR/Data/pop",
  ctry_file_path = "GID/PEB/SIR/Data/spatial/global.ctry.rds",
  growth_rate_file_path = file.path(pop_dir,
    "pop raw/WPP2024_GEN_F01_DEMOGRAPHIC_INDICATORS_COMPACT.xlsx"),
  output_dir = file.path(pop_dir, "processed_pop_file"),
  output_type = "parquet",
  edav = TRUE
)

Arguments

pop_data: tibble Country population dataset pulled from the POLIS API.
pop_dir: str Default directory to the population folder.
growth_rate_file_path: str File path to the growth rate Excel file.
output_dir: str Where to output the cleaned district population dataset.
output_type: str Output types. Valid values are 'rds', 'csv', and 'parquet'. Default is rds.
edav: logical Whether to use EDAV or not to load the file.

Value

tibble Cleaned country population.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pop_data <- load_polis_pop("ctry")
ctry_pop <- process_ctry_pop_data(pop_data)
} # }