read_SHeS_2008.RdReads and does basic cleaning on the Scottish Health Survey 2008.
read_SHeS_2008(
root = "X:/ScHARR/PR_Consumption_TA/HSE/Scottish Health Survey (SHeS)/",
file = "SHeS 2008/UKDA-6383-tab/tab/shes08i_v11.tab"
)Character - the root directory.
Character - the file path and name.
Returns a data table. Note that:
Missing data ("NA", "", "-1", "-2", "-6", "-7", "-9", "-90", "-90.0", "N/A") is replace with NA, -8 ("don't know") is also replaced with NA.
All variable names are converted to lower case.
Each data point is assigned a weight of 1 as there is no weight variable supplied.
A single sampling cluster is assigned.
The probabilistic sampling unit have the year appended to them.
The Scottish Health Survey is designed to yield a representative sample of the general population living in private households in Scotland every year. An initial sample of 9,906 addresses were selected, comprising of three sample types:
6,945 formed the main sample, at which adults and children were eligible;
2,301 addresses formed an additional child boost sample at which only households containing children ages 0-15 were eligible;
660 addresses formed the Health Board boost sample, at which only only adults were eligible to interview.
Note: Optional NHS Health Board boost - NHS Health Boards were given the option to boost their samples beyond the levels which is funded centrally. In 2008, Fife Borders and Grampian Health Boards chose to boost the number of adults interviewed. These cases have been included in the main 2008 file, and their additional selection probability has been adjusted for in the weighting scheme.
MISSING VALUES
-1 Not applicable: Used to signify that a particular variable did not apply to a given respondent usually because of internal routing. For example, men in women only questions.
-2 Schedule not applicable: Used mainly for variables on the self-completions when the respondent was not of the given age range, also used for children without legal guardians in the home who could not participate in the nurse schedule.
-6 Schedule not obtained: Used to signify that a particular variable was not answered because the respondent did not complete or agree to a particular schedule (i.e. nurse schedule or selfcompletions).
-8 Don't know, Can't say.
-9 No answer/ Refused
if (FALSE) {
data_2008 <- read_SHeS_2008("X:/",
"ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2008/UKDA-6383-tab/tab/shes08i_v11.tab")
}