Summarise the percentages of people with certain levels of a variable

Uses the 'survey' package to estimate the percentages with uncertainty that accounts for survey sampling error and survey design.

prop_summary(data, var_name, levels_1, levels_0, strat_vars = NULL)

Arguments

data

Data table of individual characteristics.

var_name

Character - the name of the variable to be summarised.

levels_1

Character vector - the levels that should be assigned 1 in the binary variable

levels_0

Character vector - the levels that should be assigned 0 in the binary variable

strat_vars

Character vector - the variables by which to stratify the estimates

Value

Returns the estimate and standard error.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

prop_smokers <- prop_summary(
  data = data,
  var_name = "cig_smoker_status",
  levels_1 = "current",
  levels_0 = c("former", "never"),
  strat_vars = c("sex", "imd_quintile")
)

}